April 12, 2023

Berke-Weiss Law Recognized by Super Lawyers for Legal Excellence in 2022

Berke-Weiss Law is excited to announce that Laurie Berke-Weiss, Alex Berke, and Rosa Aliberti have been selected to the 2022 New York-Metro: Women’s Edition Super Lawyers and Rising Stars lists.

In addition to being included in the 2022 New York-Metro: Women’s Edition Super Lawyers list, Laurie Berke-Weiss has been selected to the Top 50 Women Lawyers in the New York Metro Area list. Senior Associates Alex Berke and Rosa Aliberti have been included on the Rising Stars list.

Each year, no more than five percent of the lawyers, and no more than 2.5% of lawyers on the Rising Stars list, in the state are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to receive this honor. Super Lawyers, part of Thomson Reuters, is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.  The annual patented selection process includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations.

Read the publication here.

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Employer-based Health Insurance on Shaky Ground

September 29, 2020
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Employer-provided health care schemes are under severe strain and those who have already been laid off have been struggling to shore up the gaps in their coverage, all during a global health crisis.

Is Unemployment Keeping People from Returning to Work?

September 23, 2020
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Wen Congress passed the CARES Act back in March, which included a temporary boost in unemployment benefits for people affected by the pandemic, there was bound to be controversy. But new research is showing that unemployment benefits and enhanced jobless security is not the deterrent employers believe it to be. There is plenty of anecdotal evidence to suggest as such, and now, according to the New York Times, there is data driven evidence to back this up.

Helping Parents During the Pandemic

September 23, 2020
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Parents’ predicaments has been a theme we’ve returned to again and again here at the Berke-Weiss Law Blog since the start of March, though our concern over working parents’, and especially mothers’, rights reaches back much longer than six months.

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