Employment Law Institute

This institute will examine recent trends, developments, and cutting-edge issues in employment law. Topics to be discussed include monitoring and investigating employees’ social media activity; common ethical pitfalls for employment lawyers; legal issues arising both in the hiring process and termination of an employee; and violence in the workplace. There will also be break-out sessions focusing on employment issues that frequently arise for in-house counsel, including internal investigations and requests for leave and religious and disability accommodations. The panelists include judges, in-house counsel for several large New York corporations and financial institutions, representatives from governmental agencies, and top practitioners from both the plaintiffs’ and defense bar.

Live Program: $399 Member, $499 Nonmember
In-House Counsel: $249 Member, $349 Nonmember (This discounted rate for select programs cannot be combined with other discounts.)
Small Law Firm: $199 Member, $299 Nonmember (This discounted rate for select programs cannot be combined with other discounts.)

Discounts will be granted to attorneys working for government agencies, public interest groups, full-time students and full-time academics.

Raechel L. Adams, Supervisory Trial Attorney, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Katherine Blostein, Outten & Golden LLP

Miriam F. Clark, Ritz, Clark & Ben-Asher LLP

Penny P. Domow, Assistant General Counsel, Legal Department, JP Morgan Chase Inc.

Karen P. Fernbach, Regional Director, National Labor Relations Board, Manhattan Regional Office

Barbara Flessas, Assistant General Counsel, Jefferies LLC

Hon. Helen Freedman (retired), JAMS – The Resolution Expert

Heather A. Glatter, Director & Employment Counsel, Credit Suisse

Mark J. Goldberg, Loeb & Loeb LLP

Sonya D. Johnson, Senior Counsel, National Grid

Stuart Kleinman, M.D., Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Adjunct Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School

Diane Knox, General Manager, Legal, Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas)

Alexa Pappas, Managing Director, Global Head, Employment Law, Morgan Stanley

Katharine H. Parker, Proskauer Rose LLP

Melissa Pierre-Louis, Outten & Golden LLP

Hon. Cheryl L. Pollak, U.S. Magistrate Judge, EDNY

Hon. Lorna G. Schofield, U.S. District Judge, SDNY

Patrick W. Shea, Paul Hastings LLP

Tricia Bozyk Sherno, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Tracey Salmon-Smith, Bressler, Amery & Ross, P.C.

Stephen P. Sonnenberg, Paul Hastings LLP

Danitra T. Spencer, Senior Staff Attorney, Labor and Employment, Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, Inc.

Benjamin E. Stockman, Venable LLP

Diana Goell Voigt, Senior Attorney, Labor and Employment Group Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc.

LeRoy J. Watkins, Jr., Jackson Lewis P.C.

9:00 – 10:00 a.m.     Monitoring and Investigating Employees’ Social Media Activity

Moderator: Jeremiah Iadevaia
Panelists: Miriam F. Clark, Karen P. Fernbach & Tricia B. Sherno

10:05 – 11:05 a.m.   Ethics for Employment Lawyers

Patrick W. Shea

11:05 – 11:15 a.m.   Break

11:15 – 12:15 p.m.  Break-out Sessions (choose one)

(a) Legal Issues Arising from Termination of an Employee (Discrimination, Retaliation and Other Possible Claims)
Moderator: Danitra T. Spencer
Panelists: Katherine Blostein, Diana Goell Voigt & LeRoy Watkins

(b) Special Panel for In-House Counsel: The In-House Lawyer Perspective on Internal Investigations 
sponsored by Bressler, Amery & Ross, P.C
Moderator: Tracey Salmon-Smith
Panelists: Penny P. Domow & Alexa Pappas

12:15 – 1:15 p.m.    Networking Lunch Sponsored by Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

1:15 – 2:15 p.m.      Employment Litigation: A View from the Bench

Moderator: Benjamin E. Stockman
Panelists: Hon. Helen Freedman, Hon. Cheryl L. Pollak & Hon. Lorna G. Schofield

2:20 – 3:20 p.m.      Violence in the Workplace

Moderator: Stephen P. Sonnenberg
Panelists: Raechel L. Adams, Diane Knox & Stuart Kleinman, M.D.

3:20 – 3:30 p.m.      Break

3:30 – 4:30 p.m.      Break-out Sessions (choose one)

(a) Legal Issues Arising in the Hiring Process: FCRA, Criminal History, Background Checks, Disability & Medical Inquiries
Panelists: Mark J. Goldberg, Jyotin Hamid & Katharine H. Parker

(b) Special Panel for In-House Counsel: Handling Requests for Leave and Religious and Disability Accommodations
Moderator: Sonya D. Johnson
Panelists: Barbara Flessas, Heather A. Glatter & Melissa Pierre-Louis

Sponsoring Association Committee: Labor & Employment Law, Rebecca J. Osborne, Chair

Sponsorship Opportunities are Available! Please Contact: 
Ann Rappleye, Director, City Bar Center for CLE | (212) 382-6606 | ARappleye@nycbar.org or
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Darianne De Leon, Program & Sponsorship Coordinator, City Bar Center for CLE | (212) 382-6731 | ddeleon@nycbar.org