Jonathan Bruno was a guest speaker at the New York Wage & Hour Compliance Forum hosted by FedEx on Tuesday, February 18, 2020 at the New York LaGuardia Airport Marriott.

The forum, hosted for FedEx’s independent service providers in New York, was meant to help trucking businesses better understand their business’ compliance obligations regarding wage

Michael Mulè will present “Complying with Changing NYS Employment Laws” for the Business Owners Seminar Series on March 19, 2020 from 8:30 am to 10 am at Rivkin Radler’s Uniondale office.

Please join us for a discussion about the recent changes to

Ken Novikoff was interviewed about Amazon’s alleged threats to fire workers who complained to the media about the company’s environmental stance.

Ken noted that the First Amendment does not extend to jobs with private employers, of which Amazon is one.

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Evan H. Krinick, Managing Partner of Rivkin Radler LLP, is pleased to announce that Michelle A. Bholan,  James R. Finn, Tamika N. Hardy, Steven T. Henesy and Joshua D. Smith have been elected Partners.

“These attorneys are excellent advocates in their respective practice areas who are deeply committed to serving our clients,” Krinick said. “We

Rivkin Radler is pleased to announce that the Firm has been named to the U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” list for 2020. The Firm was ranked in the following regions and practice areas:

Metropolitan Tier 1

Long Island: Insurance Law, Litigation-Healthcare

Metropolitan Tier 2

Albany: Health Care Law

Long Island: Appellate Practice,

Uniondale, New York – August 15, 2019 – The prestigious Best Lawyers in America has included Rivkin Radler LLP in its U.S. rankings for 2020.  Attorneys from the firm’s Albany, Hackensack and Uniondale offices were included. The lawyers listed, their offices and the categories of law in which they are listed, are as follows:

Albany,

On Thursday, May 16 from 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Michael Mulè will host the eighth program in the Business Owners Seminar Series (BOSS) at Rivkin Radler’s offices.

Presented by immigration attorney Henry Mascia, the program will provide an overview of what you need to know about employing foreign workers.

Topics covered include:

• How to

Tamika Hardy obtained dismissal on behalf of her client in a discrimination matter pending before the Division of Human Rights. The claimant asserted pregnancy, sex, disability  and national origin discrimination claims based on from  her termination two days after she returned from maternity leave.  The Division found that there was no probable cause to believe that

On March 10, 2019, Shari Lewis was quoted in the Newsday article, “Curbing Rudeness in Workplace Communications.” The article discusses the far-reaching effects of workplace incivility, which often manifests in emails.

Shari noted that, above all, firms should “have a policy that encourages civility,” and that policy should spell out acceptable conduct and social media/electronic

Ken Novikoff and Rosalinde Casalini, after an evidentiary hearing, obtained a preliminary injunction in favor of R&G Brenner Income Tax, enjoining its former senior tax preparer in one of its Queens offices, for a period of two years, from soliciting and/or servicing any of its clients in that office.

Additionally, the Supreme Court, Nassau County