NYC area NELA/NY Happy Hour - 4/18/25, 5-8pm (Send-off for Margaret McIntyre)
4/18/2025 - 4/18/2025

NELA/NY April Happy Hour in NYC
 
WHEN: Friday, April 18, 5-8pm
WHAT: NYC Happy Hour @ Pebble Bar, 67 W 49th St (Rockefeller Center)
WHO: NELA/NY members

A Special NELA/NY Happy Hour to Celebrate Margaret McIntyre Buying her Dream Home! 
 
Your taxes will soon be in the rearview mirror; it's time to celebrate! We’re hosting a special Bar Talk to honor long-time NELA/NY member Margaret McIntyre, who’s swapping the NYC subways for bucolic Syracuse. But don’t worry, she’s not leaving us behind — she’ll still be practicing law and will remain very much a part of our amazing community. 

**Please RSVP by Friday 4/18/25 so that we may give the venue an idea of our numbers**
Location: Pebble Bar
(Rockefeller Center)
New York, NY 10112

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Spring 2025 Conference @ Fordham Law
5/2/2025 - 5/2/2025

Spring 2025 Full Day Conference
May 2, 2025 (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!

The day will include the following panels, plus more - some details are still being finalized; a complete agenda will be distributed ASAP!

 (1) We Protect Us: ICE/”La Migra” (1.0 Professional Practice) 

Panelists from Make the Road NY will present what they are prioritizing in terms of client and member education, Know Your Rights outreach, litigation (including birthright and expedited removal) and legislative advocacy in the face of Trump 2.0. 

Panelists:

• Nathalia Varela , Make the Road NY & staff

(2) Fighting Motions to Compel Forced Arbitration (1.5 Professional Practice Credit)

A deep dive to help practitioners fight motions to compel arbitration. This panel will include practical nuts-and-bolts guidance on fighting employers’ bids to push our clients into arbitration, while also surveying the latest developments in this fast-moving area of the law as influenced by recent Congressional action, Supreme Court, and Second Circuit cases.

Panelists:

• Hugh Baran, Katz Banks
• Karla Gilbride, Deputy Director, Public Citizen Litigation Group and former General Counsel, EEOC
• Julia Elmaleh-Sachs, Partner, Crumiller

 
(3)  “Whistleblower Panel” (1.0 Professional Practice Credit)
 
Whistleblower practitioners will review the retaliation protections and incentive programs that New York employment lawyers should know.  Panelists will explore developments under NY Labor Law 740 in the three years since its expansion and will provide an overview of other state, federal, and local whistleblower claims.  Speakers will discuss practical tips for representing whistleblowers and what they expect during the current administration.

Panelists:

• Michael Filoromo III, Katz Banks Kumin
• Anne L. Clark, Vladeck
• Jonathan Ben-Asher, Ritz Clark & Ben-Asher
• Hamsa Mahendranathan, Whistleblower Partners LLP

 
(4) 2:00-3:00 PM Everything you Wanted to Know about Taking Time Off to Care for a Family Member  (1.0 Professional Practice Credit)
 
Join NELA-NY for a CLE presentation on federal, New York State, and New York City laws related to leave protections for workers, including pregnant workers, new parents, and caregivers. The presentation will cover protections under a host of leave laws, including the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), New York Paid Family Leave, the New York Lawful Absence Law, the New York City Earned Sick and Safe Time Act (ESSTA), and paid prenatal personal leave. The panel will also cover accommodations laws that provide access to leave, including the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA). 
 
Panelists:

• Samantha Hunt, A Better Balance
• Alexandra Reese, DCWP
• Elizabeth Potter, DCWP  

(5)     Summary Judgement   (1.0 Professional Practice)

Panelist:

• Hon. Denny Chin

 

Location: Fordham Law School
150 West 62nd Street
New York, NY 10023

Registration ends on 4/28/2025

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NELA Nite at Noon: “Enforcing Bostock as the Law of the Land: Viable Pathways for Prosecuting Discrimination based on Gender Identity” (5/6/25)
5/6/2025

NELA Nite at Noon: “Enforcing Bostock as the Law of the Land: Viable Pathways for Prosecuting Discrimination based on Gender Identity”
 
May 6, 2025 from 12-1:30 PM EST via Zoom Webinar
1.5 CLE Credit (Professional Practice)
$25 NELA and affiliate Members / $50 Non-Members
 
In Bostock v. Clayton County, the Supreme Court held that the language of sex-based discrimination under Title VII encompasses employees based on their gender identity and sexual orientation. Yet in January, Trump issued the Executive Order, "Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government" commanding that it is official U.S. policy to recognize just two "immutable" sexes and reject identities outside that binary and the EEOC followed suit with its own public statement, by abandoning cases already filed in federal court and by directing staff to send for review all cases alleging discrimination based upon LGBTQIA+ status to Washington. Join Allegra Fishel, Founder and Executive Director of the Gender Equality Law Center; Effat Hussain, Senior Counsel for the Law Enforcement Bureau of the New York City Commission on Human Rights; Sandra Pullman, Senior Counsel for the Civil Rights Bureau of the New York State Attorney General’s Office; and Erin Sobkowski, Deputy General Counsel for the New York State Division of Human Rights, to learn how to navigate these changes, how state and city agencies are managing their dockets, and which effective strategies and avenues remain for successful enforcement of gender identity claims.

Register today!
Location: via Zoom Webinar

Registration ends on 5/6/2025

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