April 10, 2025
Berke-Weiss Law in the News

Principal Laurie Berke-Weiss featured in The Observer, The Student Voice of Fordham Lincoln Center

Berke-Weiss Law is pleased to share a recent feature published in The Observer, The Student Voice of Fordham Lincoln Center, highlighting the firm’s founder and principal,  Laurie Berke-Weiss, a graduate of Fordham Law School and president of the New York Women’s Bar Association Foundation.

Fordham Senior journalism student and staff writer Brianna Karla Sanchez, writes about Laurie’s experience, strategic vision, and her work to advance women in the law. We thank Brianna Sanchez for her thoughtful profile of Laurie’s contributions to the firm and women in the legal community.

Click here to read the full article.

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Center for American Progress Report Warns Childcare Crisis Will Have Strong Negative Effects on American Women’s Workforce Participation

June 4, 2020
Gender Discrimination
This week, the Center for American Progress released a new report titled “Valuing Women’s Caregiving During and After the Coronavirus Crisis” which highlights the need to support caregivers during the crisis, but also to think about medium- and long-term strategies to ensure that this does not result in a long-term crisis within childcare.

Employers Must Investigate and Report Work-Related Covid-19 Cases to OSHA

June 3, 2020
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Under new Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) guidance, moving forward employers must now investigate how any Covid-19 positive employees may have contracted the virus. If the cause of the infection was likely work-related, the employer must record it as an “occupational illness.”

Antiracism Resources

June 2, 2020
Race Discrimination
Our Firm is saddened and angered by the killings of and violence against Black people by government authorities, as well as efforts to limit peaceful protest. In our legal practice, we fight against race discrimination in the workplace using the law, but these tragic events invite the law to do better now than in the past to provide justice and healing to those affected personally, and to our society as a whole.
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