The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is the federal agency entrusted with administering most federal civil rights laws, including the Civil Rights Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, among others.
The Commission serves multiple important functions including processing individual charges of discrimination, determining the few deemed worthy of a finding of probable cause, and the fewer of those that merit EEOC intervention into the district court as plaintiff in favor of the complainant. The Commission also acts as the Administrative Tribunal for federal-sector employees who grieve violations of these laws in workplace. The EEOC performs multiple other functions, but the one that is the focus of this presentation is its role in shaping interpretation of discrimination law in the Circuit Courts as amicus. In this course, attorneys Gregory Antollino and Stephen Bergstein address recent instances of EEOC intervention in the Circuit Courts and the hot-button issues in employment law that have garnered the attention of the Commission.
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Gregory Antollino has been practicing civil-rights law since 1993, when he took his first pro bono cases at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, involving Art, Free Speech, and opposition to the Death Penalty. He set up his own small firm in 1995; he practices both civil rights (including employment discrimination and constitutional torts) and legal malpractice. He only represents plaintiffs. Over the course of his career, Gregory has argued over 20 times before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, where he has had affirmed several of his own jury verdicts. He argued once before the New York Court of Appeals, where all seven judges ruled in his favor. His one petition for certiorari to the U.S Supreme Court was noted as “Petition of the Day” on Scotusblog, but cert. was, to his regret, denied.
Greg tries one or two civil cases a year. In 2003, he was invited to attend Gerry Spence’s Trial Lawyer’s College, a three week intensive course for lawyers to get in touch with themselves as people so as better to understand their clients. He has been noted as a “SuperLawyer” since 2011 and in 2015 was rated AV Pre-eminent by Martindale-Hubbell.
In 2016, Greg attended the intensive Mediation program at the Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation, and hopes to expand his practice to include Alternative Dispute Resolution.
Stephen Bergstein received his B.A. from SUNY New Paltz in 1989 and graduated from CUNY Law School in 1993, where he served on the editorial board of the school's law journal. Bergstein is admitted to practice in the courts of the State of New York, the Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts of New York, the Second and Third Circuit Courts of Appeal and the United States Supreme Court. From 2009 through 2016, he was on the Executive Board of the New York chapter of the National Employment Lawyers Association.
Mr. Bergstein has represented scores of plaintiffs in civil rights and employment cases in the State and Federal Courts, helping to set important case precedents involving the First Amendment, employment discrimination, sexual and racial harassment, housing discrimination, search and seizure, false arrest, municipal liability and whistleblower protection.
Mr. Bergstein’s noteworthy cases include:
Mr. Bergstein is a member of the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association and the Orange County Bar Association. Mr. Bergstein frequently lectures on civil rights issues, providing attorneys and law students with guidance on employment discrimination and civil rights.
Excellent course & speakers, and very informative.
I'm an inhouse corporate counsel that does not practice Labor law and I found this EEOC CLE to be very interesting and informative.
Thanks, guys.
very interesting cites provided although this is not my area it was very informative.
Best CLE I've used on Lawline so far
Very well presented.
Interesting topic.
Great information and lively presentation— time flew by!
I enjoyed the course. It gave me insight.
Interesting speakers. Great anecdotes used to explain the issues
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Very current topic
Excellent presentation by two learned attorneys. The information was on point, relevant and well researched. Kudos!
EXCELLENT & INFORMATIVE COURSE. BEST SO FAR. PRESENTERS CLEARLY KNOWLEDGEABLE IN SUBJECT MATTER & PROGRESSION OF COURSE HELD MY INTEREST THROUGHOUT.
Slightly less effective delivery from one attorney, but interesting nonetheless.
Interesting dynamics between the two presenters.
Great
Good course.
The two attorney's worked together well to present this information
This was an excellent presentation. Kudos to these two attorneys for a fine job
Good session
Great presentation by both attorneys. Very knowledgable and articulate about the issues.
A worthwhile, meaningful, well-guided tour of the topic peppered with case highlights and analysis. Appreciated the supplemental Wis. L. Rev. article, "Homosexuality and the Social Meaning of Gender."