Category: Firm News

March 21, 2014 Steven Stern and Melissa Holtzer held a workshop entitled The Alphabet Soup of Employee Leave Benefits for a group of municipal representatives at a New York Conference of Mayors training session.

September 5, 2013 Steven Stern lectured to attorneys and insurance claims representatives on strategies to handle public entity litigation against pro se litigants.

September 5, 2013 Adam Kleinberg lectured to attorneys and insurance claims representatives on recent developments in age discrimination claims under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act and the federal civil rights laws.

December 5, 2011 Steven Stern was a guest panelist, giving the defense attorney’s perspective on Hot Topics in Employment Discrimination Law at the Annual School Law Conference sponsored jointly by the Nassau and Suffolk County Bar Associations.

November 29, 2011 Brian Sokoloff lectured on the topic of religious land use discrimination claims at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s Law & Politics program.

March 16, 2010   Steven Stern lectured on the legal ramifications and political fallout over the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 129 S.Ct. 1937 (May 18, 2009) as part of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s program entitled “The Law and Politics” at Stony Brook University.

November 19, 2009 Steven Stern lectured on the topic of municipal civil rights at Stony Brook University as part of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s program entitled “Legalese.”

October 11, 2011 Steven Stern lectured on the topic of First Amendment free speech claims in public employment at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s Law & Politics program.

April 1, 2009 Brian Sokoloff and Steven Stern lectured on police liability claims to a roomful of Chiefs of Police, municipal insurers, and attorneys at the Town of East Hampton Police Department headquarters.