April 12, 2023
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Berke-Weiss Law Recognized by Super Lawyers for Legal Excellence in 2022

Berke-Weiss Law is excited to announce that Laurie Berke-Weiss, Alex Berke, and Rosa Aliberti have been selected to the 2022 New York-Metro: Women’s Edition Super Lawyers and Rising Stars lists.

In addition to being included in the 2022 New York-Metro: Women’s Edition Super Lawyers list, Laurie Berke-Weiss has been selected to the Top 50 Women Lawyers in the New York Metro Area list. Senior Associates Alex Berke and Rosa Aliberti have been included on the Rising Stars list.

Each year, no more than five percent of the lawyers, and no more than 2.5% of lawyers on the Rising Stars list, in the state are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to receive this honor. Super Lawyers, part of Thomson Reuters, is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.  The annual patented selection process includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations.

Read the publication here.

Employers Can Create the Future We Deserve, or Exacerbate Discrimination Against Parents - Especially Women

October 6, 2020
Gender Discrimination
Paid Family Leave
More than 865,000 women “left” the labor market in September 2020, demonstrating that the COVID pandemic is forcing women out of work. One in four women who are still in the workforce are considering downshifting their careers, or leaving the workforce entirely, due to the pressures of work and family care.Employers who are concerned about retaining their employees who are parents, especially mothers, can take some steps to ensure that parents are not forced to “choose” their families over their careers.

Employer-based Health Insurance on Shaky Ground

September 29, 2020
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Employer-provided health care schemes are under severe strain and those who have already been laid off have been struggling to shore up the gaps in their coverage, all during a global health crisis.

Helping Parents During the Pandemic

September 23, 2020
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Parents’ predicaments has been a theme we’ve returned to again and again here at the Berke-Weiss Law Blog since the start of March, though our concern over working parents’, and especially mothers’, rights reaches back much longer than six months.
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