The Associated Press recently reported on the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Berry v. Conyers and Northover, in which the court held that federal employees could not obtain judicial review of the denial of their security clearances, even if their positions did not require [...]
Continue Reading →Bernabei & Wachtel has represented KindHearts, an Ohio charity, since 2006, when the government began an investigation of it. Along with co-counsel from the ACLU, David Cole (Georgetown Law), and Fritz Byers (Toledo, Ohio), we were successful in obtaining a significant court ruling that the government had violated KindHearts’ constitutional rights when it investigated the [...]
Continue Reading →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 →The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently issued a decision in a long-running challenge to the designation of an Oregon non-profit organization by the Office of Foreign Assets Control, U.S. Department of Treasury. This designation shut down the organization and prevented other groups from advocating on its behalf. Lynne [...]
Continue Reading →Despite all the cries for change, politicians continue to betray their constituents
FROM NEW YORK to Oklahoma to Maryland, politicians demonstrated this week that they still don’t get it. The ubiquitous cries for change we’ve heard on the campaign trail this year are clearly not being heard.
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The Washington Post published a commentary in the Sunday “Outlook” section (Dec. 23, 2006) by Robin Ingle, a Bernabei & Wachtel client who formerly worked at the Consumer Product Safety Commission as a statistician on various safety issues. Ms. Ingle resigned after realizing that the CPSC would only delay in releasing statistics that [...]
Continue Reading →We are happy to announce the addition of Tara Jensen to the firm of Bernabei & Wachtel, PLLC, as an associate attorney. Tara obtained her J.D. from the City University of New York School of Law in 2006. She comes to us after serving as a law clerk to the Honorable Ronald L. Ellis, United [...]
Continue Reading →We are pleased to announce that Emily Read joined the firm on July 2, 2007 as an associate attorney. Emily was most recently a Teaching Fellow at the Institute for Public Representation, a civil rights clinical program at Georgetown University Law Center. There she managed complex litigation in state and federal courts and before administrative [...]
Continue Reading →Decisions refine SOX whistleblower protection
It’s been four and a half years since Congress enacted the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) aff ording broad protection for employees who report activities they reasonably believe to be fraudulent and misleading to investors in publicly traded companies. Last year the Washington Post reported that approximately 750 people had filed [...]
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