December 13, 2023
Berke-Weiss Law in the News

Law360 Quotes Senior Associate Alex Berke in Article Covering Recent Court Decision

Law360 covers recent decision made in Frazier v. FCBC Development Corp. et al., in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The Defendant’s motion for summary judgement was denied by U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian. This is the second favorable decision for the plaintiff, after the initial decision to deny defendants motion to dismiss. Law 360 quoted Senior Associate Alex Berke, who represents plaintiff Frazier in this matter, regarding this important ruling. Click here to read her full statement and more about the decision. Looking ahead, Berke prepares to have plaintiff Frazier’s claims heard by a jury.

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Wage Gaps and Cutthroat Culture Highlight Gender Disparity, ABA Report Finds

May 13, 2021
Gender Discrimination
In a new report undertaken by the American Bar Association, several key aspects of the legal profession are causing women attorneys to consider leaving the field. Among the most significant factors are the persistent pay gap based on gender and the hyper-individualistic, competitive nature of the industry, which often pits lawyers against one another, degrading any sense of community workplace culture.

Childcare and Paid Leave Funding Part of $1.8tn “American Families Plan” 

April 29, 2021
Paid Family Leave
In a speech to a joint session of Congress, President Biden unveiled the “The American Families Plan,” the third part of the president’s push to power a post-pandemic recovery. Along with the $1.9 trillion fiscal stimulus and a proposal for an infrastructure plan that would earmark $2.3 trillion to upgrade roads, bridges, railroads, and the country’s aging power grid, the American Families Plan seeks to fund a wide range of initiatives to address deep-lying problems on the job market that the pandemic exposed, and hopefully help the more than 2 million women who left the workforce in 2020 to return.

New Study Finds No Negative Effects in NYS Paid Family Leave 

April 16, 2021
Paid Family Leave
The results of a three-year study conducted by the National Bureau of Economic Research indicated that paid family leave policies do not have a negative effect for employers.
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