December 16, 2007
The Washington Post reports on complaint filed by KMB on behalf of U.S. Coast Guard Deepwater whistleblower
In a complaint filed with the Bush administration by KMB attorneys Debra S. Katz and Ari Wilkenfeld, Katz alleges that the U.S. Coast Guard placed Anthony D'Armiento on administrative leave, threatened him with a criminal investigation, and confronted him at gunpoint in retaliation for disclosing information embarrassing to the Coast Guard's troubled $25 Billion fleet replacement program, known as Deepwater.

	The Washington Post, December 16, 2007 Coast Guard Employee Alleges Retaliation
	Political Gateway, December 16, 2007 Whistleblower alleges retaliation

December 14, 2007
National Journal quotes Debra S. Katz in connection with FBI Probe of Special Inspector General for Iraq
The National Journal quotes Debra S. Katz in connection with FBI Probe of Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, Stuart Bowen, concerning his activities in accessing email accounts of employees.

The National Journal, December 14, 2007
FBI Probes Special IG For Iraq

November 30, 2007
Washington Post reports about Scott Bloch's destruction of computer files
Washington Post quotes Debra S. Katz, counsel for former and current OSC employees who brought a complaint against Bloch which is currently being investigated by the OPM IG. Earlier in the week, Katz sent a letter to President Bush urging Bloch's termination in light of the latest revelations concerning his destruction of evidence and obstruction of the OPM IG investigation.

The Washington Post, November 30, 2007
U.S. Special Counsel Says He Won't Provide Files

November 30, 2007
Federal News Radio interviews Avi Kumin about Scott Bloch's investigation
Federal News Radio interviews Avi Kumin about Scott Bloch's investigation by the Office of Personnel Management's Office of Inspector General, and his destruction of computer files.

November 28, 2007
USA Today Reports on letter sent by Debra S. Katz to President George W. Bush
Debra S. Katz sent a strongly worded letter to President George W. Bush today on behalf of a coalition of current and former employees of the United States Office of Special Counsel ("OSC") and whistleblower protection groups, urging President Bush to fire Special Counsel Scott Bloch in the wake of his admission that he directed the deletion of computer files at the Agency. According to today's Wall Street Journal, in the midst of the OPM IG's investigation into his misconduct at OSC, Bloch hired a private computer-help company, Geeks on Call, to delete Agency computer files destroying crucial evidence and making it virtually impossible for forensics experts to restore the data later.
Katz stated, "Today's Wall Street Journal contains a report confirming what my clients and other sources within OSC have been saying since the OPM IG investigation began: that Mr. Bloch and his political henchmen have continuously obstructed the investigators' efforts to get at the truth. ... Tellingly, the article quotes Mr. Bloch as defending himself with a claim that the OPM IG has a 'conflict of interest' in pursuing its investigation of Mr. Bloch while his office supposedly is conducting an investigation of the White House. This claim by Mr. Bloch confirms what we have repeatedly pointed out in correspondence with the White House Counsel, with Clay Johnson, Deputy Director of OMB, and with members of Congress - that Mr. Bloch launched his supposed investigation of the White House to insulate himself from the OPM IG investigation."

	The Federal Times, November 28, 2007 Attorney: New claims against special counsel are firing offense
	The Wall Street Journal, November 28, 2007 Head of Rove Inquiry in Hot Seat Himself
	USA Today, November 28, 2007 Rove investigator accused of wiping data from office computer

November 23, 2007
Washingtonian Magazine Ranks Katz, Marshall and Banks Among Washington's Top Lawyers
In its December 2007 edition, Washingtonian magazine names KMB partners Debra S. Katz, David J. Marshall and Lisa J. Banks to its prestigious best lawyers in Washington list. The Washingtonian article, which is based on a poll of lawyers who named the best practitioners in their fields, describes the list as representing "Washington's best - the top 1 percent - in 28 legal specialties." KMB partners Debra S. Katz and Lisa J. Banks are named in the "You're Fired!" section which lists the District's top plaintiffs' employment lawyers, and KMB partner David J. Marshall is named in the "Blowing the Whistle" section which lists D.C.'s top lawyers handling whistleblower cases. "Hang on to the list," the Washingtonian advises its readers. "When you really need a lawyer, you might want one of these."

The Washingtonian Magazine, November 23, 2007
Big Guns: Washington's Top 800 Lawyers

November 7, 2007
KMB Files Discrimination Complaint Against ExxonMobil Corporation
Debra S. Katz, Avi Kumin, and Hanan Idilbi filed a religion, race, and national origin discrimination complaint against ExxonMobil Corporation in the federal district court in Delaware. The lawsuit alleges that three employees of an Exxon station on the Delaware Turnpike - Sofiene Romdhani, an Arab Muslim originally from Tunisia, and Michelle Maloney and Bobbi Joe Zeller, who had both converted to Islam - suffered persistent racial and religious harassment and discrimination at the hands of Exxon supervisors. The suit alleged that the plaintiffs and other Muslim and Arab employees at the station were subjected to racist graffiti and a steady barrage of anti-Muslim comments by management officials, who vowed to rid the station of all Muslims employees. The suit further alleged that Exxon's headquarters ignored repeated complaints of discrimination from Muslim employees at the station and failed to perform a timely investigation. Ultimately, the suit alleged, two of the three plaintiffs were forced to resign because they could not tolerate the harassment and abuse, while the third was suddenly terminated on the same day she complained about managers viewing pornography in the workplace. The Wilmington civil rights firm of Martin & Wilson serves as local counsel in the case.

The News Journal, November 7, 2007
Muslim former employees at I-95 service station sue Exxon

November 2, 2007
Avi Kumin trains attorneys in disability and medical, family and leave law
Avi Kumin was a speaker at the employment law training for pro bono attorneys held by the D.C. Bar Association and the D.C. Employment Justice Center. Mr. Kumin trained attorneys about the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Family and Medical Leave Act.

November 1-2, 2007
KMB Files Nuclear Whistleblower Complaint Against Southern Nuclear Company
Debra S. Katz, David J. Marshall and Nicole Williams filed a whistleblower retaliation complaint with the U.S. Department of Labor on behalf of Michael Smith, a nuclear engineer at the Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant. Smith's complaint, filed with the United States Department of Labor, alleges that Southern has retaliated against him for reporting nuclear safety issues at the Farley plant, in violation of Section 211 of the Energy Reorganization Act, the federal law which protects nuclear whistleblowers.
Smith alleges that within days of reporting safety concerns and acts of retaliation by Farley management to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ("NRC"), and within hours of submitting Condition Reports documenting deficiencies in the plant's safety culture, Farley's management falsely accused him of being a "danger to nuclear safety," for submitted the reports very early in the morning and before reporting to the Plant. After berating him for submitting these reports, Farley management had him escorted from the plant, took his badge, and made him submit to a fitness for duty exam. Smith alleges that Farley management then suspended Smith for five weeks, citing his supposed danger to nuclear safety, and have took actions to set him up for termination. Smith alleges that Farley management took this action after learning that he had met with the NRC to report that Farley was unconcerned about maintaining a safety conscious work environment, and that he and other nuclear engineers felt harassed and intimidated for reporting nuclear safety concerns.

	Atlanta Journal Constitution, November 2, 2007 Whistle-blower says he's victim of retaliation
	The Birmingham News, November 2, 2007 Farley nuclear planted cited for safety problems

October 29, 2007
The Legal Times publishes Avi Kumin's commentary on a Supreme Court discrimination case
The Legal Times publishes Avi Kumin's commentary on a Supreme Court discrimination case recently accepted for review by the Supreme Court. Mr. Kumin writes that effective enforcement of laws prohibiting racial discrimination will depend upon the Court upholding the right to bring retaliation claims under federal statute Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act.

The Legal Times, October 29, 2007
Taking Aim at Section 1981?

October 12, 2007
The Washington Post reports on letter sent by Debra S. Katz to Fred Fielding, White House Counsel
The Washington Post quoted from Ms. Katz's letter to Mr. Fielding concerning Special Counsel Scott Bloch's obstruction of the investigation of the OPM IG into allegations of prohibited personnel practices and other serious violations of federal law by Bloch, including retaliation against employees who disputed his policies.

	The Washington Post, October 12, 2007 That Whistle's Been Blowing for Two Years
	October 10, 2007 Letter sent by GAP, POGO and PEER
	October 9, 2007 Letter to Fred Fielding

October 10, 2007
Letter sent by Debra Katz to Fred Fielding, White House Counsel
Congressional Daily reports on letter sent by Debra S. Katz to Fred Fielding, White House Counsel.

	Congressional Daily, October 10, 2007 Watchdog Groups Oppose More Money for Special Counsel
	October 9, 2007 Letter to Fred Fielding

October 7, 2007
The New York Post quotes Debra S. Katz
The New York Post quotes Debra S. Katz about the impact the Isiah Thomas verdict will have for other sexual harassment litigants.

The New York Post, October 7, 2007
Experts: Harassment Cases Will Spur More Complaints

October 2, 2007
Maura Dundon has joined to Katz, Marshall & Banks, LLP
We are pleased to announce that Maura Dundon has joined the firm as an Associate. Ms. Dundon is a 2005 graduate of Columbia Law School, where she was a Kent Scholar and was on the Columbia Law Review. After graduation, she completed a year-long fellowship with Public Citizen's Alan Morrison Supreme Court Assistance Project, where she participated in merits- and cert-stage Supreme Court briefing. She then clerked for Judge Anita Brody in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Ms. Dundon completed legal internships at the Brennan Center for Justice in New York City, the New Mexico Environmental Law Center in Santa Fe, and Debevoise & Plimpton, LLP, in New York City.

September 2007
Hanan Idilbi has joined to Katz, Marshall & Banks, LLP
We are pleased to announce that Hanan Idilbi has joined Katz, Marshall & Banks, LLP as an Associate. Ms. Idilbi previously served as a Litigation Fellow at the firm. Ms. Idilbi received her Bachelor of Arts in English from Duke University in 2001. In 2007, Ms. Idilbi graduated summa cum laude from American University Washington College of Law where she was a Public Interest/Public Service Scholar. Ms. Idilbi served as a staff member on the American University Law Review and was inducted into the WCL chapter of the Order of the Coif.

September 26, 2007
Debra S. Katz was selected as one of the nation's top employment lawyers and civil rights lawyers
The Washington Post Magazine published the results of the Washington DC Area's Best Lawyers excerpted from the 2008 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, the preeminent guide to the legal profession in the United States. Debra S. Katz was selected as one of the nation's top employment lawyers and civil rights lawyers. Published for a quarter of a century, Best Lawyers lists attorneys who have been chosen through an exhaustive survey in which thousands of the nation's top lawyers confidentially evaluate their peers.

The Washington Post Magazine, September 30, 2007
The Best Lawyers in America

September 24, 2007
The National Law Journal quotes Debra S. Katz
The National Law Journal quotes Debra S. Katz concerning two employment discrimination cases before the U.S. Supreme Court during the 2007-2008 term.

The National Law Journal, September 24, 2007
High court is set for high drama

September 18, 2007
KMBLegal's Sponsoring
KMB sponsors National Breast Cancer Coalition's Second Annual Strike Breast Cancer Bowling Challenge.

September 18, 2007
KMB sponsors National Breast Cancer Coalition's Second Annual Strike Breast Cancer Bowling Challenge

September 13, 2007
BlueHippo Loses Appeal on Arbitration Clause
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond has dismissed an appeal by BlueHippo in a class-actions lawsuit challenging the company's business practices. BlueHippo's appeal had sought to force all customers nationwide to pursue their claims through individual arbitration proceedings, even if they had never signed arbitration agreements. KMB's David J. Marshall, who represents BlueHippo customers along with Professor Gary Peller of Georgetown University Law School, said the Fourth Circuit's dismissal of the BlueHippo's appeal clears the way for consumers to pursue their claims in court. "We plan to rejuvenate our case in California and put BlueHippo out of business," Marshall said.

	Baltimore Sun, September, 2007 Retailer Loses Federal Appeal
	Consumer Affairs, September, 2007 Federal Court Strikes BlueHippo's Arbitration Clause

September 7, 2007
KMB Files Nuclear Whistleblower Lawsuit in Alabama
David J. Marshall and Daniel B. Edelman, along with Frank B. Potts, Jr., of Potts & Young Attorneys LLP in Florence, Alabama, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama on behalf of James Speegle, a construction foreman who was fired for blowing the whistle on nuclear safety violations at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant near Athens, Alabama. Stone & Webster Construction Co., a TVA contractor, fired Speegle in May 2004, two days after he met with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission about serious safety problems with the protective coatings used in the plant's cooling system, and immediately following a heated exchange with management about these issues. In a press release issued today, KMB attorney David J. Marshall expressed confidence that Speegle will win his case in federal court. "The people who work in and live near Browns Ferry rely on the workers there to blow the whistle on safety violations," Marshall said, "and I'm confident that they want to see James Speegle vindicated for doing the right thing."

	September 7, 2007 Press Release: Nuclear Plant Worker Files Whistleblower Lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Alabama
	September 7, 2007 Complaint for Compensatory Damages and Injunctive and Declaratory Relief
	The Daily Report, September 7, 2007 Whistleblower sues over firing by TVA contractor at Browns Ferry
	The Employment Law 360, September 7, 2007 Plant Fired Worker Who Raised Safety Concerns: Suit
	The Times Daily, September 7, 2007 Tuscumbia man files lawsuit against nuclear plant

September 1, 2007
Blowing the Whistle on Accounting Fraud: The Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblower Protections at a Glance
CFO Magazine's online edition, CFO.com, publishes a white paper by KMB attorneys David J. Marshall and Nicole J. Williams on the employee-protection provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley act, which protect employees of publicly traded companies who blow the whistle on accounting fraud and other wrongdoing. This white paper provides finance professionals with some of the information they need to know before blowing the whistle on such unlawful practices.

CFO Magazine, A White Paper for Finance Professionals
Blowing the Whistle on Accounting Fraud:
The Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblower Protections at a Glance

August 6, 2007
Complainants against Scott Bloch, OSC Special Counsel
Debra S. Katz, counsel for current and former employees of the Office of Special Counsel who have filed a complaint against Scott Bloch, OSC Special Counsel, is quoted by The New York Times in its profile of Special Counsel Scott Bloch. According to Katz, Bloch "came into this agency, dismantled it and made it completely inhospitable for conscientious employees to do their work."

The New York Times, August 6, 2007
Investigative Drama: Special Counsel's Crusade

August 1, 2007
The Top 10 Plaintiffs' Attorneys to Fear the Most
Human Resource Executive magazine names Debra S. Katz on its list of "The Top 10 Plaintiffs' Attorneys to Fear the Most." In its August cover story, entitled "Meet the Enemy," HRE profiles ten of the "most highly regarded and successful employment-law plaintiffs' attorneys" and notes that "to know them is to avoid them."

	The Human Resource Executive, August 1, 2007 The Top 10 Plaintiffs' Attorneys to Fear the Most
	The Human Resource Executive, August 1, 2007 Feared Employment-Law Plaintiffs' Attorneys

August 1, 2007
The Legacy of "Ledbetter"
The National Law Journal publishes an article by Lisa J. Banks and Debra S. Katz analyzing the U.S. Supreme Court's recent 5-4 decision, Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., Inc. and other employment-related Supreme Court cases of the 2006-2007 term. As Ms. Banks and Ms. Katz note in the article, the Supreme Court radically narrowed Title VII protections against pay discrimination in Ledbetter, which previously generally held that each new paycheck that is polluted by discrimination constituted a separate discriminatory employment practice, thus signaling a reversal of decades of progress on legal rights for women and minorities in the workplace. Justice Ginsburg, declaring from the bench that "this Court does not comprehend, or is indifferent to, the insidious way in which women can be victims of pay discrimination," called on Congress to step in and correct the Court's ill-considered decision. KMB attorneys will certainly join those efforts to seek passage of the "Ledbetter Fair Pay Act."
Banks and Katz also note that the Court's failure to reach the merits on another closely watched case of the term, EEOC v. BCI Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Los Angeles, left both employees and employers short of the victory that each sought on the issue of employer liability for so called "cat's paw" actions.

The National Law Journal, August 1, 2007
The Legacy of "Ledbetter"

July 23, 2007
Court Gives OK to Unequal Pay
Ms. Magazine publishes article by Justine Andronici criticizing the U.S. Supreme Court's recent 5-4 decision, Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., Inc. Pursuant to this ruling employees must file a charge with the EEOC within 180 days of receiving their initial pay check, or otherwise lose the ability to bring a claim for pay discrimination later. As Ms. Andronici notes in the article, the Supreme Court radically narrowed Title VII protections against pay discrimination, which generally held that new paycheck that is polluted by discrimination constituted a separate discriminatory employment practice, thus signaling a reversal of decades of progress on legal rights for women and minorities in the workplace. Justice Ginsburg, declaring from the bench that "this Court does not comprehend, or is indifferent to, the insidious way in which women can be victims of pay discrimination," called on Congress to step in and correct the Court's ill-considered decision. KMB attorneys will certainly join those efforts to seek passage of the "Ledbetter Fair Pay Act."

Ms. Magazine, Summer 2007
Court Gives OK to Unequal Pay

July 18, 2007
Caregiver Discrimination
KMB attorney Justine Andronici is quoted by the Chronicle of Philanthropy in a report on "family-responsibilities discrimination" or "caregiver discrimination" on the part of non-profit employers. According to Andronici, such discrimination is not uncommon even when prohibited in an organization's employment manual. Family-responsibilities discrimination has attracted enough attention recently to prompt the EEOC to issue a comprehensive Enforcement Guidance on the topic, as well as on related issues of gender-role stereotyping of women.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy, July 18, 2007
How Employees With Family Responsibilities Can Guard Against Discrimination on the Job

July 17, 2007
Settlement Announced in Capitol Tunnel Workers Case
KMB and the Government Accountability Project announce a settlement in the workers' whistleblower retaliation case filed by ten U.S. Capitol Tunnel Shop workers against the Architect of the Capitol. The out-of-court settlement resolves the complaint that the workers filed with the Congressional Office of Compliance in October 2006, charged the Architect with harassing and threatening them after they alerted Congress in March 2006 to the life-threatening levels of asbestos and other hazards they faced while working in the utility tunnels that run beneath Capitol Hill.

	The New York Times, July 17, 2007 Capitol Steamfitters Settle Case
	ABC 7 News, July 17, 2007 Capitol Tunnel Workers Settle Whistleblower Complaints

July 13, 2007
Political Battles Expected to Overshadow OSC Reauthorization
Debra S. Katz, counsel for current and former employees of the Office of Special Counsel who have filed a complaint against Scott Bloch, OSC Special Counsel, is quoted by the Federal Times in connection with the OSC reauthorization hearings. According to Katz, "We believe that it is obvious that Mr. Bloch launched this wide-ranging inquiry in an attempt to deflect attention from his own serious misconduct and obstruct the investigation that is being conducted by the OPM IG." The article references an April 2007 written by Katz to White House Counsel Fred Fielding asking Bloch to recuse himself from the Hatch Act probe of Karl Rove and other White House personnel. According to Katz, "the Hatch Act investigation will allow Bloch to label an adverse finding in the OPM investigation as retaliation." She also notes that if Bloch's investigation of the White House "is still under way when OPM completes its own investigation of Mr. Bloch ... the White House will be put in the position of having to make a decision about Mr. Bloch's future while it is itself being investigated by [him]."

The Federal Times, July 12, 2007
Political Battles Expected to Overshadow OSC Reauthorization

July 6, 2007
Cell-Phone Woes
U.S. News & World Report quotes KMB attorney David J. Marshall in an article on cellular phone companies' growing practice of requiring customer to extend their contracts as a condition of upgrading their plans.

U.S. News & World Report, July 3, 2007
Cellphone Contracts Cause Angst

July 3, 2007
Troubled Waters At the Salon Spa
KMB attorneys Debra S. Katz, Ari Wilkenfeld and Justine Andronici prosecute sexual harassment suit filed against Andre Chreky and his Salon. The Washington Post featured a Style Section article about the lawsuit noting that "Two Ex-Employees Present a Very Different Image of Andre Chreky. For a decade, Andre Chreky's boutique has been atop the particular trade that is the high-end hair salon industry in the nation's capital."

The Washington Post, July 2, 2007
Troubled Waters At the Salon Spa

June 14, 2007
A Brief Overview of Whistleblower Litigation Before the U.S. Department of Labor
David J. Marshall was a speaker at the West Virginia Association for Justice's annual convention in Charleston, West Virginia. Mr. Marshall spoke on the topic, "Whistleblowers: Can a Whistleblower Get Justice? Can Her Lawyer Get Paid?"

West Virginia Association for Justice Convention, June, 2007
Whistleblowers: Can A Whistleblower Get Justice? Can Her Lawyer Get Paid?

May 24, 2007
Conducting Bullet-proof Internal HR Investigations
Debra S. Katz was a speaker at the D.C. Bar's Labor and Employment Law Section seminar "Conducting Bullet-proof Internal HR Investigations".

D.C. Bar's Labor and Employment Law Section seminar, May 24, 2007
Conducting Bullet-proof Internal HR Investigations

May 21, 2007
The Poverty Business
Business Week magazine interviews KMB client Vincent Humphries for its cover story on "The Poverty Business: Inside U.S. Companies' Audacious Drive to Extract More Profits from the Nation's Working Poor." Humphries is a named plaintiff in KMB's class-action lawsuits against computer sales company BlueHippo Funding, LLC. In the article, which focuses on BlueHippo as one of several profiled companies that prey on low-income consumers, Humphries describes how BlueHippo "strong-armed" him our of $124 and refused to allow him to cancel his contract. Business Week also quotes a spokesman for Gateway, Inc., which KMB and The Sturdevant Law Firm seek to add as a defendant in their class action against BlueHippo, as admitting that the computer giant was "aware of [BlueHippo's] business model from the get-go," but maintained a relationship with the company because it wanted to "make a profit."

	The Business Week, May 21, 2007 The Poverty Business
	June 12, 2006 Proposed Amended Complaint

May 14, 2007
Whistleblower Protection Seminar
Debra S. Katz spoke at the D.C. Whistleblower Week - Whistleblower Law & Protections seminar in Washington, D.C.

May 11, 2007
BlueHippo Agrees to Settlement
KMB's David J. Marshall tells the Baltimore Sun that a settlement between the Maryland Attorney General and computer sales company BlueHippo Funding will have little effect on the class-action lawsuit that KMB and The Sturdevant Law Firm are prosecuting against the company in Federal Court in California. Marshall points out that the company continues to take hundreds of dollars each from thousands of consumers nationwide without delivering the merchandise the customers ordered.

May 10 and 11, 2007
The 40th Annual Pacific Coast Labor and Employment Law Conference
Debra S. Katz was a speaker at the 40th Annual Pacific Coast Labor and Employment Law Conference in Seattle, Washington. Ms. Katz spoke about the law of retaliation.

Seattle, Washington, May 10 and 11, 2007
40th Annual Pacific Coast Labor and Employment Law Conference

May 10, 2007
On Your Side: Blue Hippo
ABC-7 TV News's consumer reporter Ross McLaughlin features evidence submitted by KMB attorneys David J. Marshall and Gary Peller in class-action lawsuit against BlueHippo Funding in a "Seven on Your Side" story on the computer sales company. In a comprehensive report that probing BlueHippo Funding's unfair and deceptive business practices, McLaughlin relies on data analyzed and filed by KMB in the class actions that KMB and The Sturdevant Law firm filed against the company in Federal Courts in California and Maryland. "We got our hands on some of BlueHippo's own data," McLaughlin reports, "... and discovered, of computers ordered, only 34 percent were shipped."

ABC-7 TV News, Original air date: May 10, 2007
On Your Side: Blue Hippo

May 10, 2007
Architect to Fix Health Hazards of Tunnels in Capitol
The Washington Post and a local ABC News affiliate report on a settlement between the Congressional Office of Compliance and the Architect of the Capitol, which requires the Architect to fix safety problems in the asbestos-laden utility tunnels staffed by KMB clients John Thayer and nine other tunnel workers. KMB attorneys David J. Marshall, Debra S. Katz and Nicole J. Williams represent the ten workers in a retaliation complaint against the Architect.

	ABC News, May 10, 2007 Capitol Architect Agrees to Fix Asbestos Problem
	The Washington Post, May 9, 2007 Architect to Fix Health Hazards of Tunnels in Capitol

May 3-5, 2007
ALI-ABA's Conference
Litigating Employment Discrimination and Employment-Related Claims and Defenses
in Federal and State Courts
Debra S. Katz served as a co-chair of ALI-ABA's conference "Litigating Employment Discrimination and Employment-Related Claims and Defenses in Federal and State Courts," which took place in Boston, Massachusetts.
Ms. Katz and Lisa J. Banks served as members of the faculty. Ms. Katz lectured on "Harassment in the Workplace", "Whistleblowing, Sarbanes-Oxley, and Retaliation Claims" and "Practical and Tactical Employment Litigation Issues". Ms. Banks lectured about "Race, National Origin, and Religion: Recent Developments". Ms. Banks also lectured on "Practical and Tactical Employment Litigation Issues".

	ALI-ABA's Conference, May 3-5, 2007 Litigating Employment Discrimination and Employment-Related Claims and Defenses in Federal and State Courts
	ALI-ABA Course of Study, May 3-5, 2007 Harassment in the Workplace
	ALI-ABA Course of Study, May 3-5, 2007 Whistleblowing, Sarbanes-Oxley, and Retaliation Claims

May 1, 2007
A Bush Appointee Goes After the White House
Debra S. Katz is quoted by the Los Angeles Times in an article entitled "Bush Appointee Goes After the White House." Katz represents former Office of Special Counsel employees in a federal lawsuit alleging that Special Counsel Scott Bloch, a Bush appointee, used his office to stifle dissent by pushing out long-term employees and hiring political allies.

April 17, 2007
Don't Whistle While You Work
Debra Katz is quoted by Mother Jones magazine in its article "Don't Whistle While You Work: The War on Whistleblowers." The article focuses on the poor enforcement of whistleblower laws by Scott Bloch, the head of the Office of Special Counsel, the federal agency charged with whistleblower protection. KMB represents a group of former OSC employees who allege that Mr. Bloch retaliated against them after they engaged in protected speech and associations.

Mother Jones, May/June 2007