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 [...]
Continue Reading →PolitiFact’s “Truth-O-Meter” recently quoted Lynne Bernabei in order to address Sean Hannity’s claim that the Administration’s proposed jobs bill would allow the unemployed to sue for discrimination if they were not hired because they were unemployed. Lynne confirmed that while the jobs bill would allow the unemployed to make that claim, it [...]
Continue Reading →This chapter provides an overview of the key remedies available to employment discrimination plaintiffs under Section 1981 and Title VII. For further discussion of these issues, including the complex law governing the taxation of monetary remedies, see Seymour & Brown,
Equal Employment Law Update, Chapters 44-56 (Fall 1998). Read More…
The National Law Journal published an opinion piece by Nicholas Spaeth, a firm client, discussing the inherent age discrimination and bias in law school faculty hiring.
“While the AALS and its members proudly boast of their nondiscriminatory policies — including those against age
discrimination — the truth of the matter is [...]
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 [...]
Continue Reading →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 [...]
Continue Reading →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 [...]
Continue Reading →The Chicago Tribune’s Red Eye website wrote about the rally at DePaul University, in which numerous students and faculty members gathered to protest the recent denials of tenure to numerous minority faculty members. The article also discusses the report of the American Association of University Professors, which found that one department expressed unwarranted [...]
Continue Reading →Bernabei & Wachtel represents David Highnote, a former employee of the Amalgamated Transit Union, who was terminated for in-house union organizing. Senior managers warned him that he was not to discuss workplace conditions with other employees, yet he persisted in organizing efforts at the ATU. The ATU terminated him, claiming that this was due to [...]
Continue Reading →Our firm represents a group of female professors currently or formerly employed by DePaul University in Chicago who were denied tenure based on their sex and, for two of our clients – Dr. Namita Goswami and Dr. Melissa Bradshaw – the fact that they focus on feminist areas of study. Dr. Goswami is a philosophy [...]
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