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Prof. Shirley Lin @profshirleylin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
U.S. law profs have rebutted a full complement of specious EEOC arguments [link in post]. Now more than ever, research on #race, #labor + #statistics are essential to the integrity of #law. We remain obligated to make concepts at the core of democracy are accessible to the public. lnkd.in/p/gq6Fpwfs
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#brooklynlawschool #workplacelaw #civilrights #employmentlaw #legalscholarship | Brooklyn Law School
Brooklyn Law School Professor Shirley Lin ​spearheaded an effort with Rutgers Law Professor Stacy Hawkins and New York Law School Professor Andrea J. Johnson in urging the U.S. Equal Employment Opport...
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
📢 Call for Papers! The Block Center for the Study of International Business Law at BLS invites scholars to submit proposals for the 2026 International Business Law Scholars Roundtable, taking place on Friday, October 9, 2026. Read more info & submit by July 15, 2026: tinyurl.com/4aakrc
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
The Law School would like to congratulate our Professor Shirley Lin (@profshirleylin.bsky.social) on an outstanding term as Chair of AALS Labor Relations & Employment Law for the Association of American Law Schools! Her notable contributions will be valued within the organization.
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
This year's AALS conference was filled with insight and knowledge from BLS faculty. Click to see more highlights: tinyurl.com/8enkey38
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Brooklyn Law School - Brooklyn Law Scholars Lead National Conversations at the 2026 AALS Annual Meeting
Brooklyn Law School scholars share expertise at the 2026 AALS Annual Meeting in New Orleans, speaking on panels about law, justice, and legal education.
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Anna Roberts @profaroberts.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Another excellent panel at #AALS2026. "Property Rights and Racial Dispossession," featuring Jade Craig, @jackchin.bsky.social, Hayward Gordon, Danaya Wright, @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social's Aissatou Barry, and Mitch Crusto.
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Prof. Shirley Lin @profshirleylin.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
In a response essay invited by Ohio State Law Journal, co-author Michael Nunn @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social '24 and I address labor activism that embraces bold new organizing models amid political polarization, steep corrosion of the rule of law, and open antagonism toward LGBTQIA+ communities. /1
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Social Justice Unionism: Intersectionality in the Twenty-First Century Workplace
In <i>“Strike with Pride”: Unionizing as an LGBTQ Rights Strategy</i>, a remarkable wave of organizing at Starbucks tests two pillars of work law: the anti-disc
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Two of our faculty spoke at the Central States Legal Writing Conference at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. Prof. Alissa Bauer analyzed legal writing textbooks to see how they teach the rule support section. Prof. Irene Ten Cate tackled: Are we teaching law students or training future lawyers?
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
📣 Brooklyn Law School proudly recognizes Jeffrey D. Forchelli ’69, who has been named Trustee Emeritus in honor of his decades of distinguished service. 💡Read more about his remarkable contributions and family legacy: www.brooklaw.edu/news-and-eve...
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Brooklyn Law School congratulates Scott Stuart ’87 on his appointment as the new Chief Executive Officer of INSOL International, the global federation of national associations for restructuring, insolvency, and bankruptcy professionals. Announcement: www.insol.org/news-announc... Photo: INSOL
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Appointment of Scott Stuart as New CEO - INSOL
INSOL International is a world-wide federation of national associations for accountants and lawyers who specialise in turnaround and insolvency. There are currently 44 Member Associations world-wide with over 10,500 professionals participating as Members of INSOL International. Follow us on LinkedIn.
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Francis J. Aquila '83, Chair of Brooklyn Law School’s Board of Trustees, discusses with The American Lawyer a potential M&A boom and the impact interest rates can have in the dealmaking equation: www.law.com/americanlawy...
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
The Center for Urban Business Entrepreneurship (CUBE) will host a panel of experts from venture capital, government affairs, politics, & law on Sept. 29 to discuss how to navigate New York City and State’s notoriously complex regulatory landscape. Register: www.brooklaw.edu/news-and-eve...
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Join us for the 2025 Hon. I. Leo Glasser Lecture, "A More Perfect Union." Wed., Oct. 8, 2025, 4 to 6 pm at the Jack B. Weinstein Ceremonial Courtroom, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, 225 Cadman Plaza East, Brooklyn RSVP online by Sept. 29, 2025: www.brooklaw.edu/news-and-eve...
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Professor Jodi Balsam spoke with Law360 for an article that explores how, even as more pro sports franchise owners commit significant private funds to new stadiums, public money remains a critical—and often contested—factor in getting these projects built. Read More: www.law360.com/construction...
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
You are invited to the International Business Law Symposium, “The New International Economic (Dis)Order.” Fri., Oct. 10 9:00 AM to 5:45 PM RSVP 10/3: www.brooklaw.edu/news-and-eve... Sponsor: Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law. 8.5 CLE credits in the NY State.
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Martin Edelman ’77, chairman of the Judicial Screening Committee for the Kings County Democratic Party, spoke with the Brooklyn Eagle about how the process of vetting judicial candidates has evolved over the last few decades. brooklyneagle.com/articles/202...
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✰PREMIUM Vetting judicial candidates: How the system has changed
In addition to interpreting the law, ensuring that trials are fair, making rulings based on evidence and principles, judges have power.
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Professor Sarah Haan spoke with Bloomberg Law about the ongoing legal and political efforts to regulate proxy advisory firms such as ISS and Glass Lewis. Read more: news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/proxy-ad...
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Professor Heidi Gilchrist spoke with Bloomberg Law for a New York Brief, “Trump’s Path to Troops in NYC, Explained.” The brief examined Trump’s arguments for deploying troops in California and whether he could attempt the same in New York. news.bloomberglaw.com/new-york-bri...
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Trump’s Path to Troops in NYC, Explained
President Donald Trump hit a setback in his push to use the military in US cities when a California federal judge on Tuesday found his use of troops in Los Angeles was unlawful. But a path to dispatching the National Guard in New York isn’t foreclosed.
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
You are invited to the International Business Law Symposium, “The New International Economic (Dis)Order.” Fri., Oct. 10 9:00 AM to 5:45 PM RSVP 10/3: go.brooklaw.edu/webmail/1041... Sponsor: Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law. 8.5 CLE credits in the NY State.
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Professor Stratos Pahis wrote an analysis for the Lawfare Institute which examined the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit’s decision that declared President Trump’s emergency tariffs illegal. Read more: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Prof. Jodi Balsam commented on changes coming to the PGA Tour for Golfweek, citing the ATP Tour’s 2007 antitrust case in which its defense centered on delivering the best product to consumers as an example of how the PGA Tour might navigate legal challenges. golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports...
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Lynch: Lawyer up! The PGA Tour is about to be legally forced to prioritize fans over players
PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp recently sent two messages, one to the tour's employees and another to the locker room.
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Prof. Stratos Pahis’ article, “Are Investment Treaties Redundant? Evidence from Investor-State Disputes,” is now live on ICSID Review website. Pahis challenges assumptions on the importance of investment treaties & their role in shaping international law. academic.oup.com/icsidreview/...
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Congrats to our criminal law faculty & alumni working in the field as prosecutors & defense attorneys! A new national ranking of “The Best Law Schools for Public Service,” published in preLaw Magazine, placed Brooklyn Law at No. 2 in criminal law. www.brooklaw.edu/news-and-eve...
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Prof. Jodi Balsam told Bloomberg Law that the 2nd Circuit’s rejection of the NFL arbitration clause in Brian Flores’ race discrimination case could have wide-reaching effects for the other major sports leagues that have similar arbitration requirements. news.bloomberglaw.com/new-york-bri...
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Second Circuit’s NFL Arbitration Ruling Extends to the Boardroom
The Second Circuit last week threw out the National Football League’s playbook when it rejected the league’s efforts to force former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores’ race discrimination claims into arbitration.
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
A new chapter begins! Tonight’s Convocation 2025 at EDNY in Brooklyn is a celebratory welcome for our newest students as they take their first steps toward becoming lawyers. More highlights to come tomorrow!
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Professor James Fanto, Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Business Law and Regulation, shared insights with WHYY on recent layoffs in Philadelphia’s biotechnology industry, addressing employee stock options and executive compensation. Read More: whyy.org/articles/phi...
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Philly’s biotech industry keeps losing local jobs in a volatile market
Some of Philadelphia’s biotechnology companies that specialize in cell therapy shed employees in recent weeks as the industry is facing some unique headwinds.
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Prof. Richard Winchester leads a research project at The Murphy Institute (Tulane University) with 15 Murphy students. They are building a database to support scholarly projects focusing on housing segregation, the racial wealth gap, and related topics. murphy.tulane.edu/building-dat...
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Aissatou Barry, Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Housing Justice Clinic, shared insights with U.S. News & World Report on protecting homeowners from title theft. money.usnews.com/loans/mortga...
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Professor Alice Ristroph was quoted in a New York Times Opinion piece about the role that the Supreme Court’s embrace of the “unitary executive” theory has played in advancing President Trump’s agenda. Read more: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/o...
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Congratulations to the Law School’s 1901 Distinguished Research Professor of Law Neil Cohen, who has been appointed to the NYS Commission on Uniform State Laws by Gov. Kathy Hochul. Read the story: www.brooklaw.edu/news-and-eve...
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
The Brooklyn Law School community mourns the death of Professor Emeritus John J. “Jack” Meehan, a beloved teacher and colleague at the Law School for 50 years, until his retirement in 1993. He died at age 100. www.brooklaw.edu/news-and-eve...
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Professor Amy Gajda wrote for First Amendment Watch at NYU about a recent NJ Supreme Court ruling that upheld restrictions on publishing a public official’s home address—even when obtained legally and relevant to a news story. Read more: firstamendmentwatch.org/daniels-law-...
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Daniel’s Law and a Constitutional End to Publishing News Stories Containing a Home Address
In mid-June 2025, New Jersey’s high court prevented a journalist from reporting a newsworthy truth that he had learned from the government itself.
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Prof. Amy Gajda offered expert commentary to NPR on the legacy of Hulk Hogan v. Gawker, a landmark privacy case that continues to shape media law and how it helped everyday people better understand their rights when it comes to privacy violations. www.npr.org/2025/07/28/n...
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The legacy of Hulk Hogan's sex tape scandal
The 2016 legal battle raised questions about the line between freedom of expression and privacy, and what is actually newsworthy. Questions that needed to be reexamined in light of the invention of the internet, according to law experts.
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Professor Amy Gajda offered insight into the legal legacy of the landmark Hulk Hogan sex tape lawsuit in a recent article that appeared in multiple news outlets, examining how the trial reshaped the boundaries between press freedom and personal privacy. Article: apnews.com/article/hulk...
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Professor Alexis Hoag-Fordjour delivered a keynote address at last week’s annual Nancy Bergeson Ardent Advocate Lecture Series in Portland, Oregon. 🎥 Remarks begin @ 9:00 mark: youtu.be/Lq-OHxzYPbA?...
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Congratulations to Cohl Love ’22, trial attorney at Kirkland & Ellis, on receiving the American Bar Association’s On the Rise – Top 40 Young Lawyers Award. www.americanbar.org/groups/young...
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
As we count down to the bar exam, Brooklyn Law School’s 10-week, alumni-supported Summer Bar Prep Initiative is going strong. We’re wishing all our bar takers the very best on exam day—you’ve got this! Story: www.brooklaw.edu/news-and-eve...
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Our next BLS Summer 2025 Student Spotlight is Samantha Beigelman ’26, who is an SEC Scholars Summer Intern with the Division of Enforcement at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C., assisting attorneys in investigating potential violations of federal securities laws.
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Brittany Persson ’07, Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Library, co-presented “Hot Topics in Library Operations” at the 2025 AALL Annual Meeting & Conference in Portland, OR. The session explored complex and timely issues in law library operations. [First photo: Persson, 2nd from left]
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Admissions officers Katherine Zhang ’17 and Jeremy Ashton welcomed court interns from NYC’s Summer Youth Employment Program for an inside look at the law school admissions process. brooklyneagle.com/articles/202...
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Brooklyn Law School admissions officers tell court interns: 'We believe in you'
Brooklyn Law School urged SYEP interns to pursue law despite doubts and rising costs, stressing belonging, support and honest storytelling.
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Ankit Kapoor ’18, founding partner at Cohen Stine Kapoor LLP, was recently featured in New York Weekly, where he reflected on his journey from NYPD officer, attending law school at night, to matrimonial and family law attorney. Read more: nyweekly.com/entrepreneur...
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From Cop to Counselor: Ankit Kapoor Brings Empathy and Grit to High-Stakes Divorce Law - New York Weekly
There’s no such thing as a routine day for Ankit Kapoor, a founding partner at the Manhattan-based law firm Cohen Stine Kapoor LLP. One momen...
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Professors Joy Kanwar and Alissa Bauer represented Brooklyn Law School at the Association of Legal Writing Directors Biennial Conference, held at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law.
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Congratulations to Professor Jocelyn Simonson, who has been elected as a new member of the American Law Institute (ALI), the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve the law.   www.brooklaw.edu/news-and-eve...
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Professors Alissa Bauer and Alberto Rodriguez led a workshop yesterday titled “How to Succeed in Law School,” sponsored by LatinoJustice PRLDF. Most of the participants will begin their studies at Brooklyn Law School this fall.
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Professor Maria Termini presented “Negation in Legal Narratives” last Friday at the 10th Biennial Applied Legal Storytelling Conference, hosted by the University of Michigan Law School.
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Professor Joy Kanwar presented “Lessons from the Negative Spaces: Using Counter Narrative to Preserve Legal Histories in the South Asian Community” last Friday at the 10th Biennial Applied Legal Storytelling Conference, hosted by the University of Michigan Law School.
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Prof. Danielle Tully participated today in a discussion on Contextual Legal Storytelling at the 10th Biennial Applied Legal Storytelling Conference. She was joined by co-panelists Ashley Binetti, St. John’s University School of Law, & Susan McMahon, UC Irvine School of Law.
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Prof. Kerry Fulham presented at the 10th Biennial Applied Legal Storytelling Conference at the University of Michigan Law School today. Fulham's presentation focused on how moral panic and narrative blame shaped HIV criminalization laws that require sex offender registration.
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Congratulations to Stan Wilcox ’88 on his upcoming retirement as NCAA Executive Vice President of Regulatory Affairs, effective August 1. Stan’s retirement marks the close of an extraordinary 40-year career in college athletics. ncaa.org/news/2025/7/....
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NCAA Executive Vice President Stan Wilcox announces retirement - NCAA.org
NCAA Executive Vice President of Regulatory Affairs Stan Wilcox will retire effective Aug. 1. Wilcox joined the national office staff in October 2018 to oversee
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Congratulations to Lisa Casa '11, a partner in Forchelli Deegan Terrana LLP’s Employment & Labor practice group, who was appointed Chair of the Labor and Employment Law Committee of the Nassau County Bar Association.
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Brooklyn Law School @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Professors Joy Kanwar, L. Danielle Tully, Maria Termini, and Kerry Fulham (photo L-R) are in Ann Arbor to present at the 10th Biennial Applied Legal Storytelling Conference at the University of Michigan Law School.
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