The December 2011 issue of Washingtonian, in its survey of the top lawyers in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, listed Lynne Bernabei and Dave Wachtel among the top 17 lawyers who represent employees in employment discrimination cases (“Suing the Boss: Unjustly fired or the victim of harassment at work?”), and also recognized them [...]

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The York Daily Record recently interviewed David Wachtel for comment on the Jerry Sandusky quagmire at Penn State and how it relates to assistant coach of the football team, Mike McQueary. McQueary, a graduate assistant at the time, says he witnessed Sandusky sexually abusing a young boy in the shower in 2002. He [...]

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Bernabei & Wachtel represents a former state Attorney General of North Dakota who has a long and distinguished career in both government and private practice, and has taught as an adjunct law professor. Based on his experience, he decided to apply for tenure-track positions at law schools, but was consistently turned down for interviews at [...]

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In the latest edition of CCH’s Insight newsletter, David Wachtel helps break down the recent Supreme Court ruling in Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Eleven years after it first began in California, the largest civil rights class action suit ended in June with a 5-4 ruling by the United States Supreme Court. The majority [...]

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The firm is prosecuting an AIR21 complaint with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration on behalf of a corporate pilot against his former employer Metropolitan Aviation. AIR21 is also known as the Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century and protects pilots and other aviation workers from retaliation when they [...]

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Lynne Bernabei and David Wachtel were both named to the 2011 edition of Super Lawyers for Washington, D.C., an annual publication which rates service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.  Lynne was named as one of [...]

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Lynne Bernabei, David Wachtel and Alan Kabat have been listed in the 2011 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®. For 28 years, Best Lawyers has come to be regarded – by both the legal profession and the public – as the definitive guide to legal excellence in the U.S. The new 2011 Best Lawyers, [...]

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2009 Best Lawyers in Washingtonian

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Lynne Bernabei and David Wachtel were recognized in The Washingtonian, December 2009 issue as best lawyers in Washington under both employment law and civil rights — the only two lawyers recognized in both categories.

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Lynne Bernabei and David Wachtel have been selected for inclusion in the 2009 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® in the specialty of Labor and Employment Law. For over a quarter of a century, Best Lawyers has been regarded – by both the profession and the public – as the definitive [...]

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Dave Wachtel is quoted in the current edition of Inside NRC, a leading trade publication for the nuclear power industry. The story describes B&W’s client — the whistleblower at the center of the story — who was troubled when his supervisors seemed to ignore and discourage his reports of fellow guards sleeping during their shifts. [...]

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