June 17, 2025
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Meet Berke-Weiss Law's 2025 Summer Law Clerks

Berke-Weiss Law is delighted to have the assistance of two law clerks for the summer of 2025, Julia Davidson and Nahara Franklin!

Julia is a rising 3L at Fordham Law interested in plaintiff-side employment law and consumer rights law, with a particular focus on data privacy and tech regulation. She is also an advocate for LGTBQ+ rights, focused on supporting trans and nonbinary New Yorkers as they navigate the legal name/gender marker change process and access healthcare. Julia graduated from Northwestern University. Prior to attending law school, she taught high school English at public schools in Chicago and Brooklyn for six years.

Nahara is also a rising 3L at Fordham Law. She served as the Assistant Online Editor on the Environmental Law Review after 1L.  Nahara’s interests include litigation, contract negotiation, compliance, and employment/labor law, particularly where they intersect with entertainment law. Prior to law school, she worked as an educator and earned a master’s degree in early childhood education. Before teaching, she attended Texas State University where she majored in Psychology and minored in Criminal Justice.

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$20 Million Pinterest Settlement May Have Lasting Effects for HR Diversity Initiatives

January 15, 2021
Gender Discrimination
A significant gender discrimination lawsuit brought by the former COO against her former employer, Pintrerest, at the end of last year may have hiring and diversity ramifications far beyond the doors of the Silicon Valley organization.

Women's Employment Still Reeling from Pandemic’s Effects

January 12, 2021
Gender Discrimination
According to the latest analysis by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the pandemic and lockdowns continue to have an outsize effect on women’s employment in the U.S. with fewer than half (44.6%) of the jobs women lost between February and December returning. Another way of looking at it is that roughly 12 million jobs simply disappeared. Or, as Representative Katie Porter tweeted, “Women. Accounted. For. All. The. Losses.”

Paid Maternity Leave Finds an Unlikely Champion, But Is That Enough?

January 8, 2021
Pregnancy Discrimination
Paid Family Leave
On the heels of some important wins for paid leave in the 2020 election, paid maternity leave has found a new supporter. One who you might not have expected: conservative co-host of The View Megan McCain. The challenge is, as Monica Hesse notes, “how we can speed up this process so that it doesn’t require every leave-denier to personally birth a child before they also get on board.”

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