October 15, 2024
Berke-Weiss Law in the News

Principal Laurie Berke-Weiss recently spoke on a panel at Fordham Fashion Law Institute’s 14th Annual Symposium

Principal Laurie Berke-Weiss recently spoke on a panel during the Fordham Law School Fashion Law Institute’s 14th Annual Symposium. This all day program focused on the shape of things to come in fashion law, covering topics such as antitrust issues, intellectual property challenges, a legislative and regulatory update, and politics and fashion. Ms. Berke-Weiss, along with Christina Asbee, Disability Rights New York; Beth Haroules, New York Civil Liberties Union; and, Norman Siegel, Siegel Teitelbaum & Evans, spoke on “Statement Pieces: Dress Codes, Mask Laws, and Freedom of Speech”, a discussion moderated by Jeff Trexler of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.  In a lively discussion Ms. Berke-Weiss addressed the impact of dress codes and mask laws on the workplace, and how employers and employees can navigate these hot-button issues.

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Women's Employment Still Reeling from Pandemic’s Effects

January 12, 2021
Gender Discrimination
According to the latest analysis by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the pandemic and lockdowns continue to have an outsize effect on women’s employment in the U.S. with fewer than half (44.6%) of the jobs women lost between February and December returning. Another way of looking at it is that roughly 12 million jobs simply disappeared. Or, as Representative Katie Porter tweeted, “Women. Accounted. For. All. The. Losses.”

Paid Maternity Leave Finds an Unlikely Champion, But Is That Enough?

January 8, 2021
Pregnancy Discrimination
Paid Family Leave
On the heels of some important wins for paid leave in the 2020 election, paid maternity leave has found a new supporter. One who you might not have expected: conservative co-host of The View Megan McCain. The challenge is, as Monica Hesse notes, “how we can speed up this process so that it doesn’t require every leave-denier to personally birth a child before they also get on board.”

Doctor’s Video Underscores How Structural Racism Permeates the Medical Profession

December 29, 2020
Race Discrimination
One of the most devastating forms in which structural race discrimination appears is in the worlds of medicine and health care where people of color, especially Black people are provided with inferior forms of care, which are often deadly.
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