Nela Nite at Noon: "Key Updates Relating to Unemployment Entitlements" (12/2/05)
12/2/2025

Nela Nite @ Noon: Key Issues Relating to Unemployment Entitlements
December 2, 2025 from 12-1 PM EST via Zoom
1 CLE Credit (Professional Practice)

Join our own Leslie Treff, principal at the Office of Leslie Treff, for an interactive discussion which will provide updates to her previous CLE regarding unemployment rights, including: 
* What termination means and how to characterize departure from employment;
* Harmonizing unemployment insurance with severance agreements;
* and Selecting appropriate language in separation agreements to preserve unemployment rights.

Register today!
 
Location: via Zoom Webinar

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12.4.25 Fundraiser Gala
12/4/2025


Location: New York City Bar Association
42 West 44th Street
10036

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NELA Nite at Noon: “Family Responsibilities Discrimination” (12/17/25)
12/17/2025

NELA Nite at Noon: “Family Responsibilities Discrimination”
 
December 17, 2025 from 12-1:30 PM EST via Zoom Webinar
1.5 CLE Credit (Professional Practice)
$25 NELA and affiliate Members / $50 Non-Members
 

Since January 2025, over 300,000 women have left the workforce. Specifically, the share of mothers between the ages of 25-44 in the workforce has fallen almost three percentage points since this past January. Many NELA NY members have noticed an uptick in pregnancy-, gender-, and caregiver discrimination cases, likely as part of this national phenomenon. Join Liz Morris from Hastings WorkLife Law; Laura Narefsky from the National Women’s Law Center; and Carolin Guentert, of Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight to explore some of the reasons underlying this development, including return-to-work and other recent trends in employment policies that disproportionately impact pregnant and parenting workers; changes in the EEOC’s priorities; and rolling back of civil rights protections.

The panel will then focus on the tools NELA NY practitioners can use to advocate on behalf of their clients experiencing pregnancy-, gender-, and caregiver discrimination. Specifically, the panel will give an overview of the local, state, and federal laws available to NY workers, and how to effectively and strategically deploy them in litigation and pre-litigation cases. The panel will also focus on opportunities for impact litigation under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and the PUMP Act, two protective federal laws that should be used by NY practitioners to advance the case law in this area. 

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Location: via Zoom Webinar

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NELA Nite at Noon: "TRIAL STORIES: Figueroa v. Mayflower International Hotel Group Inc et al.” (1/15/26)
1/15/2026

NELA Nite at Noon: "TRIAL STORIES: Figueroa v. Mayflower International Hotel Group Inc et al.”​
 
January 15, 2026 from 12-1:30 PM EST via Zoom Webinar
1.5 CLE Credit (Professional Practice)
$25 NELA and affiliate Members / $50 Non-Members

Come debrief with trial attorney Aaron Schweitzer and co-counsel and NELA/NY member Tiffany Troy about lessons learned from their recent jury verdict of $3.65 million dollars, with $1.65 million in compensatory damages and $2 million in punitive damages. Filed in 2023, the Eastern District of New York case alleged workplace violence, sexual harassment, and the employer’s reckless disregard for employee safety at the Howard Johnson Hotel in Fresh Meadows under NYSHRL and NYCHRL. Learn about lessons learned about employer liability imputed by third party misconduct, and practice pointers in the preparation of jury materials, witness preparation, and presentation at trial.

Register today!
Location: via Zoom Webinar

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