Reuters recently quoted Lynne Bernabei on the controversy over the sexual harassment complaints against Herman Cain, a presidential candidate. Cain had denied knowing anything about settlements with former female employees.
Lynne explained that ordinarily someone in a position as prominent as Cain’s, who is head of the National Restaurant Association, would have [...]
Continue Reading →This chapter, written in 1994, provides an overview of harassment employment law claims under Title VII and Section 1981, with an emphasis on sexual and racial harassment claims, and a briefer presentation of concurrent state civil rights remedies. Read More…
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 [...]
Continue Reading →The Ithaca Journal published a lengthy overview of the tenure discrimination case involving Dr. Margo Ramlal-Nankoe, a faculty member in the Sociology Department at Ithaca College (New York). Our client was improperly denied tenure based on political considerations, since she taught about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and based on gender discrimination, including hostility by [...]
Continue Reading →The Bernabei & Wachtel firm is pleased to announce a favorable result in a high profile sexual orientation and defamation case brought by Donald Hitchcock against his former employer, the Democratic National Committee, and three DNC officers – Chairman Howard Dean, Treasurer Andy Tobias and Associate Finance Director Julie Tagen.
After extensive discovery, [...]
Continue Reading →Lynne Bernabei was interviewed by the NBC Nightly News for the second time in a week. She discussed the high profile sexual harassment suit brought against Knicks head coach Isiah Thomas and the effect of a jury award of $11.6 million to a former top executive of the New York Knicks organization. Lynne said in [...]
Continue Reading →Ariz. lawmaker didn’t do enough, some say
Billy House
Republic Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON – When he learned six years ago that Rep. Mark Foley was sending inappropriate e-mails to a male page, Rep. Jim Kolbe should have done more than confront the former congressman privately, say lawmakers, lawyers and advocates.
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Continue Reading →Who needs John Grisham or Scott Turow? The truth can be more compelling and fascinating than any fictionalized account of the legal world. Bingham and Gansler have done this, and more, with their account—Class Action (2002)—of a sexual harassment class action, Jenson et al. v. Eveleth Taconite et al., involving many of the female employees [...]
Continue Reading →This chapter provides an overview of harassment employment law claims under Title VII and Section 1981, with an emphasis on sexual and racial harassment claims, and a briefer presentation of concurrent state civil rights remedies. Read More…
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