May 22, 2020
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Welcome Summer Law Clerks!

Our Firm is happy to have two Fordham Law students on board this summer. Please join us in welcoming Rafita Ahlam and Kacie Candela!

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Rafita Ahlam is a rising 3L at Fordham Law. She is currently the Writing and Research Editor for Volume 44 of the International Law Journal, where she works with students interested in publishing their notes. Additionally, she’s a member of Fordham’s Moot Court Board and the Board of Student Advisors. Rafita’s interest in employment and labor law arose from participating in discussions about Title VII in her classes and from competing in a Moot Court competition centered on an age discrimination claim under ADEA.Prior to joining Berke-Weiss Law, Rafita interned as an Immigration Intern with the International Rescue Committee and as a Fair Hearings Intern with the NYC Department of Social Services. Before law school, she worked for two years as a paralegal at a plaintiff’s side personal injury firm. She graduated from SUNY Binghamton in 2016 with a Bachelor’s in Political Science. In her spare time, Rafita enjoys weight-lifting, traveling, and NYC’s restaurant scene.                                                                
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Kacie is a rising 2L at Fordham University School of Law, where she is the Employment Discrimination Chair of the Workers' Rights Advocates. Prior to law school, she covered New York City and State politics for NPR-affiliate radio station WFUV, where she produced and co-hosted the Prickly Politics podcast. Over three seasons, Prickly Politics took an in-depth look at local elections as well as workplace sexual harassment in the NYS Legislature and activist efforts to change the state's sexual harassment and discrimination law.Kacie is also a writer and podcast producer for the news site PassBlue.com, which covers the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. She produces UN-Scripted, a podcast that aims to make the UN comprehensible to the English-speaking global public and humanize the diplomats who serve there.Kacie is a proud alumna of the Fordham College of Rose Hill Honors Program, where she studied English and International Political Economy. She serves as a board member on the Fordham College Alumni Association. Kacie enjoys cycling, hiking, yoga and reading. She is an avid listener of WNYC and reader of the Atlantic Magazine.                                                                

Federal Government Considers Long Covid a Disability

September 3, 2021
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The federal government has made moves to expand disability coverage to include long Covid sufferers. President Biden made the announcement in July as part of the country’s celebration of the 31st anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Another Tough School Year on the Horizon

August 23, 2021
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The Delta variant impact has been felt, including by parents who were relying on schools being open for in-person sessions this fall. After a year and a half of stop-start at schools, the fall semester is already being hampered with many schools having to close or quarantine significant portions of their population. This is especially bad news as there has been little headway made by legislators or the private sector in finding ways to provide parents with paid leave to deal with care-related emergencies, most notably by the sudden closure of schools.

Is US Lack of Childcare a Threat to National Security?

August 23, 2021
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In a recent op-ed in The Hill, several retired US generals make the novel argument that the nation’s lack of strong, universal childcare is not only a persistent problem for working parents, but represents a national security threat and that lawmakers must continue to address this as part of the legislative wrangling set to go into overdrive as Congress returns from summer vacation
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