9/20/2024
8:30 AM - 5:45 PM Eastern

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Fall 2024 Conference Full Day Conference
September 20, 2024 (8:30 AM - 5:45 pm Eastern)
Fordham Law School
Rates: Member $315; Non-member $395; Non-profit Attorney $145; Student/Para $105
Virtual (Zoom Webinar) Rates: Non-Member $200; Member $150; Non-Profit Attorney $75; Student/Para FREE

If you would like to apply for financial aid, please email nelany@nelany.com for the application.
Breakfast, snacks, lunch and happy hour are all included in your in-person registration fee!

4.5 areas of Professional Practice; 1 Ethics & Professional Responsibility; 1 DEI = 6.5 credits
 

Tentative Agenda (subject to revision)

Breakfast

Welcome

Workforce Mobility: Immigration Considerations During Mass Tech Layoffs & the Era of Noncompetes (1.5 Professional Practice)

According to TechCrunch, more than 191,000 workers at U.S. based tech companies were laid off in mass job cuts in 2023, and these cuts have continued into 2024.  Most of the laid off workers have signed noncompetes or NDAs, or both.  Doing so can be very limiting, especially for immigrant workers with employer-sponsored visas. Panelists will discuss the ways that non competes and NDAs impact mobility and also facilitate workplace abuse and exploitation of both U.S. workers and visa holders.  

• Milana Dostanitch, Lipsky Lowe LLP
• Kalpana Nagampalli, Kakar P.C. 
• Dana DiRaimondo, DiRaimondo & Schroeder LLP

Mediation (1.0 Professional Practice)
An experienced panel of employment law mediators guides practitioners through best practices for employment law mediations, from mediation preparation issues: mediator selection issues, drafting effective mediation statements and preparing clients and attorneys for mediation; and then through issues arising at the mediation itself: avoiding impasse, mediator’s proposals, inability to pay issues, Rule 68 vs. Cheeks, and more.

• Darren P.B. Rumack, The Klein and Cardali Law Group PLLC
• Holly Weiss
• Rebecca Price
• Danielle Shalov, NYED Mediator Coordinator

Break

Ethics Panel (1.0 Ethics)

Join us as we examine a variety of thorny issues related to employment law, including case referral fees, fee sharing/co-counsel agreements, representing groups, joint representation retainers, and attorney advertising.

• Jeffrey Cunningham, McAngus Goudelock & Courie lLC
• Professor Andrew Kent, Joseph M. McLaughlin Chair; Professor of Law, Fordham Law School

Lunch

Federal Employment Case Law Developments (1.0 Professional Practice Credit)

Review of recent decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court, including Muldrow v City of St. Louis and Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raymond and key Second Circuit of Appeals rulings.

• Stephen Bergstein, Bergstein & Ullrich, LLP
• Rita Sethi, Special Professor of Law at Maurice Deane School of Law at Hofstra University

“Show Us the Money”: Putting a Value on Damages (1.0 Professional Practice)

This panel will provide an overview of remedies available under a variety of federal and state statutes, including the NYLL, Whistleblower Law, Title VII, Title IX, ADEA, ADA, Rehabilitation Act, FLSA, NYSHRL and NYCHRL, including look-back periods for back pay, liquidated damages, damages caps, and the ranges for defensible emotional distress awards, including defending “garden variety” awards that are $200,000-$400,000+. 

• Rebecca Houlding, Friedman & Houlding
• Nina Pirotti, Garrison Law
• Zoe Salzman, Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel LLP

Racial Discrimination in the Workplace: Focus on Asian Americans (1.0 DEI)
This panel puts a focused lens on workplace discrimination faced by Asian American employees. The panel will provide guidance on how to identify the often-subtle forms of racial discrimination as experienced by many Asian Americans, and provide information on employees’ rights and practical tools to combat such discrimination. Join discussions with employment and civil rights attorneys to understand the broader implications of workplace discrimination as a reflection of societal perception of Asian Americans, use of social media as a great equalizer in fighting workplace discrimination and understand the deep, psychological impact of experiencing workplace discrimination.
Moderator: 

• Brian Pang, COO & Head of Partnerships of Stand with Asian Americans 

Panelists:

• Michelle Lee, President & General Counsel of Stand with Asian Americans 
• David Mou, Mou Legal PLLC 
• Vaishnavi Jayakumar, Founder of Vyanams Strategies 

 
Happy Hour 

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