October 15, 2008
Resnick & Nirenberg, P.C., is proud to welcome Frances Farber-Walter as the latest addition to our firm. Ms. Farber-Walter is an experienced employment lawyer who will continue to concentrate on negotiating severance packages and settlements on behalf of employees.
October 1, 2008
Jonathan I. Nirenberg has become a member of the Amicus Committee of the National Employment Lawyer's Association of New Jersey (NELA-NJ). NELA-NJ is a group of attorneys who concentrate in representing employees in employment law matters in New Jersey. It's Amicus Committee is responsible for selecting the appeals for which NELA-NJ will file an amicus (or "friend of the court") brief, setting forth the organization's legal position on important employment law issues.
September 1, 2008
Resnick & Nirenberg has launched The New York & New Jersey Employment Law Newsletter. It is a free monthly electronic Newsletter with news and information on important employment law issues in New York and New Jersey, written by our employment lawyers.
July 10, 2008
Resnick & Nirenberg launched their employment law blog, The New York & New Jersey Employment Law Blog. The blog features employment law news and important information for employees in New York and New Jersey.
March 17, 2008
Jonathan I. Nirenberg’s article, When Does the Employer Have the Burden of Proof? appeared in the New Jersey Law Journal’s annual employment law supplement. Mr. Nirenberg’s article focuses on the circumstances in which an employer has the burden of proof to establish that it did not discriminate against an employee, rather than the employee having to prove discrimination.
November 8, 2007
Gerald Resnick was a featured panelist at the Essex County Bar Association’s Program entitled “Hot Tips for Handling Disciplinary Discharge Cases.”
October 20, 2007
Gerald Resnick presented a seminar on the Family & Medical Leave Act and the New Jersey Family Leave Act. Mr. Resnick presentation, which focused on the current state of two important family and medical leave laws, was part of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America - New Jersey’s Meadowlands Seminar.
May 21, 2007
Resnick & Nirenberg is proud to announce that it has been selected as a member of the International Network of Boutique Law Firms (“INBLF”). The INBLF is an organization of highly credentialed boutique law firms, which are hand-selected to participate, after a great deal of research, as outstanding in their respective fields of law. One of the primary purposes of the INBLF is to ensure that clients of INBLF member firm’s will receive the highest quality legal representation.
April 30, 2007
Resnick & Nirenberg is pleased to announce that Corrin Cicoria has joined our firm as a Senior Paralegal. Ms. Cicoria has been working as a Paralegal for employment lawyers for more than a decade. Based on the fact that Ms. Cicoria spent the majority of her career working with our attorneys, we are confident that she will be an invaluable addition to our team.
The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York denied Westchester County’s motion to dismiss one of our cases Costabile v. County of Westchester. In this civil rights lawsuit, Mr. Costabile alleges he was physically tortured by his supervisors at work because he is disabled. In the Court’s opinion denying Westchester’s attempt to dismiss the case, the Judge noted that “in 33 years on the bench, we have never encountered allegations of mistreatment in the workplace so shockingly malicious and sadistic.”
The Costabile case was the subject of an article in the New York Law Journal on April 30, 2007, and articles in the Journal News (Westchester County) on April 25, 2007 and April 28, 2007.
February 26, 2007
Fox News, Channel 5 in New York ran a story regarding Coulter v. Transportation Security Agency (“TSA”), a case our firm is currently handling on behalf of an American Airlines Flight Attendant who alleges she was sexually abused by a female TSA agent when she proceeded through the security area in full uniform and in the full view of the public. The TSA is an arm of the United States Department of Homeland Security.
Gerald Resnick’s editorial regarding the need for a Passengers’ Bill of Rights, which was largely inspired by that case, was published in the New Jersey Law Journal on April 9, 2007.
February 19, 2007
Jonathan Nirenberg was quoted in the New Jersey Law Journal regarding a case stemming from a subpoena he issued to NJ.com in connection with a previous case, Brennan v. The Township of Teaneck. The Brennan case was a whistleblower retaliation case brought under the New Jersey Conscientious Employee Protection Act (“CEPA”) that Mr. Nirenberg settled in 2006. Click here to read a copy of the article.
December 20, 2006
Another one of our CEPA whistleblower cases, Kevin Houghton v. The City of Hoboken, was the subject of an article in the Jersey Journal (Hudson County). Sergeant Houghton alleges he was denied a promotion, harassed and otherwise unlawfully retaliated against because he objected to numerous activities he believed were illegal. You can read the article here.
December 18, 2006
Gerald Resnick appeared on Geraldo at Large the disability harassment case of Costabile v. County of Westchester. For more information about the Costabile case, please see the news for April 25, 2007.
December 15, 2006
The Costabile case (described above) was also the subject of an article in the Journal News (Westchester County).
