Firm News
July 31, 2014
KMB partner Avi Kumin was recently featured in the July/August 2014 issue of Washington Lawyer for his upcoming participation in the D.C. Bar CLE Program course titled “Thorny Ethics Issues in Employment Law and Litigation.” At this course, attorneys will learn how to avoid difficult ethical dilmmas in the area of employment...
July 15, 2014
Partner David J. Marshall serves as a panelist at a D.C. Bar program on “New Developments in Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Retaliation Litigation.” Marshall and his co-panelist, Connie N. Bertram of Proskauer Rose LLP, discuss the litigation of “qui tam” whistleblower cases under the False Claims Act, along with...
July 15, 2014
KMB partner David J. Marshall was recently interviewed for a Compliance Weekly article entitled “Confidentiality Agreements Could Run Afoul of Whistleblower Protections.” The article examined employers’ increased use of illegal non-disclosure agreements to prevent whistleblowers from reporting corporate wrongdoing to the...
June 29, 2014
KMB partner David J. Marshall was recently interviewed for a front-page Washington Post article entitled “Workplace Secrecy Agreements Appear to Violate Federal Whistleblower Laws.” The article examined the increase in employers’ use of potentially illegal agreements with employees to protect corporations from the...
June 24, 2014
KMB partner David J. Marshall was recently quoted in a Compliance Week article entitled “Parsing SEC’s Enforcement Move Against Whistleblower Retaliation.” The article discussed the Securities and Exchange Commission’s first enforcement action against a company for retaliating against an employee who had reported...
June 23, 2014
Katz, Marshall & Banks partner Lisa J. Banks was interviewed for an article in Bloomberg BNA’s Human Resources Report about subtle gender discrimination in the workplace. Ms. Banks, who has served as a plaintiffs’ attorney in many cases regarding workplace discrimination, commented that gender bias is often more subtle in...
June 16, 2014
Katz, Marshall and Banks partner Lisa J. Banks participated in a June 16 panel discussion for the DC Bar titled “ADA Employment Law and Litigation.” The panel addressed recent issues and developments under the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADA). Ms. Banks was joined on the panel by Daniel B. Kohrman of AARP...
June 4, 2014
Katz, Marshall & Banks partner David J. Marshall was quoted in multiple publications on Tuesday, June 4, 2014, regarding an announcement by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) that it had awarded two whistleblowers $875,000 for information they provided to the SEC that led to a successful government enforcement...
June 3, 2014
Katz, Marshall & Banks partner Debra S. Katz was interviewed for a segment on CNN’s The Situation Room discussing the allegations of sexual harassment and racially hostile work environment made against the embattled owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, Donald Sterling, by Maiko Maya King. Ms. King alleges that from 2005 to...
June 3, 2014
Katz, Marshall & Banks partner Avi Kumin participated in a June 3 panel presentation for the D.C. Bar Association titled "Nuts & Bolts of Employment Law". The panel addressed tips for effective development and strategy about discrimination, retaliation, harassment, and disability cases. Mr. Kumin was joined on the...
