Partners Isabelle Kirshner and Tom Rotko recently secured the dismissal of rape charges against a 22-year-old New York University student. Prosecutors dropped the most serious charges in late September after revealing that they could not prove the claims made by the female accuser.  The case is still pending. Details of the incident surfaced in June […]

CRKL partner James Valentino and co-counsel Brian Heller of Schwartz Perry and Heller LLP recently secured a major ruling in a matter concerning how many work hours Wall Street firms can reasonably demand of a disabled employee. In Shiber v. Centerview Partners, a federal court ruled that a junior investment banker can pursue her claims […]

Partner Effie Blassberger and associate Thomas Dollar recently co-authored an article in Capitalism Today examining America’s conflicting and conflicted views toward the “#MeToo” movement since the October 2017 revelations about Harvey Weinstein’s sexual misconduct came to light. The authors note that in the years since the initial reporting on Weinstein, it has become common to […]