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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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Salary Sharing and the Importance of Pay Transparency

March 11, 2020
Gender Discrimination
Pay transparency can effectively mitigate salary discrepancies based on race and gender, especially considering that women and minorities are often at the lower end of the pay grade. While publicizing each individual employee’s salary may create unnecessary animosity, reporting pay bands could be a favorable method of promoting a culture of transparency.

COVID-19 and Work

March 9, 2020
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Employers and employees have questions about what steps they should be taking to help protect against COVID-19, the infectious disease caused by the most recently discovered coronavirus in the workplace. We have compiled some useful resources to help you understand what actions to take at this time related to work.

With Michael Bloomberg in the Race, It's Time We Talk About NDAs (again)

February 25, 2020
Pregnancy Discrimination
Sexual Harassment
In 2018, Governor Cuomo signed a law that banned many NDAs and mandatory arbitration for complaints, but some activists and policymakers argued that the state had focused too narrowly on sexual harassment, and the 2019 laws expanded the 2018 laws to include protections against NDAs in other forms of workplace discrimination.

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