December 13, 2023

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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The Week in FFCRA Complaints

June 26, 2020
Paid Family Leave
Disability Discrimination
This is the second installment in our roundup of FFCRA complaints. As we noted in the first post, we will be keeping you up to date with all the cases and highlighting the ones that we think have special bearing on our practice, employment law in New York State, or are just particularly noteworthy.

Berke-Weiss Law Weekly Roundup

June 26, 2020
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This week we’re looking at how women’s job losses are bad for the hops of a wider economic recovery, New York’s plans for phase three of reopening, and the trend to home birth trends, which we will also be discussing at greater length in a multi-post blog about coronavirus’s effects on pregnancy, abortion, and childbirth, specifically for low-income black women and women of color.

Berke-Weiss Law attends City Bar Webinar on Pregnancy during the Pandemic

June 25, 2020
Pregnancy Discrimination
Since the end of March, we’ve spent a great deal of time talking about the economic and social impacts of coronavirus and the lockdowns on working parents, but today we want to talk about how it’s affecting pregnancy. Specifically, what is and isn’t being done to help pregnant women during this incredibly strange and new time.

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