TITLE VII OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT
AFTER 50 YEARS
NYU Center for Labor and Employment Law
Samuel Estreicher, Faculty Director
Cosponsored with
Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations
and
St. John’s University School of Law
All sessions will be held in Greenberg Lounge, Vanderbilt Hall, NYU School of Law, 40 Washington Square South, New York, NY.
THURSDAY, JUNE 5
8:30-8:45 Welcome
Prof. Samuel Estreicher (NYU Law)
8:45-9:15 Keynote Address
Hon. Jenny R. Yang, Commissioner, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
Introduction: Prof. Laura Sager (NYU Law)
9:15-10:30 EEOC OBLIGATIONS; EEOC INITIATIVES
Moderator: Holly Weiss (Schulte Roth & Zabel)
Agency Conciliation and Investigation Duties
Mark Dichter (Morgan Lewis & Bockius)
Gregory Gochanour (EEOC)
Pregnancy-Related Disabilities
Sarah Crawford (EEOC)
EEOC Mediation Program
John Schmelzer (EEOC)
Commenter: David J. Reilly (ADR Specialist)
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:30 NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN PARTICULAR SUBSTANTIVE AREAS
Moderator: Prof. Shlomit Ravid (Ono Law (Isr.); Yale Law)
"Anticipatory Retaliation" (e.g., EEOC v. Cognis; arbitration clauses); Access to Justice (e.g., EEOC v. CVS
(N.D. Ill.)); Implications of Nassar
Michael J. Gray (Jones Day)
Prof. Michael Z. Green (Texas A&M Law)
Gregory Gochanour (EEOC)
Gender Pay Bias Challenges Under Title VII, EPA and President Obama's Executive Orders
Jill Rosenberg (Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe)
Commentator: Darnley D. Stewart (Giskan Solotaroff Anderson & Stewart)
12:30-2:00 Lunch
Hon. D. Patrick Lopez, General Counsel, EEOC
Introduction by Michael I. Bernstein (Bond, Schoeneck & King)
Afternoon Session Moderator: Eric Taussig (Law Office of Eric Taussig; formerly Phillip Morris)
2:00-3:30 DISPARATE IMPACT AND PATTERN OR PRACTICE LITIGATION
Moderator: Laurie Berke-Weiss (Berke-Weiss & Pechman)
Challenges to Nonselection Screening Devices (Credit History/ Ex-Convict Status/Any Viability Left to Beazer?)
Ossai Miazad (Outten & Golden)
Kathleen McKenna (Proskauer Rose)
Challenges to Psychological Tests (Honesty; Personality Testing)
Gary Siniscalco (Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe)
Challenges to Subjective Selection Systems; "Pattern or Practice" Promotion and Pay Claims
in Higher-Level Jobs
Theodore O. Rogers, Jr. (Sullivan & Cromwell)
Gena Palumbo (Goldman Sachs)
Adam T. Klein (Outten & Golden)
3:00-3:45 Break
3:45-5:00 USE OF EXPERTS
Moderator: Zachary Fasman (Proskauer Rose)
Industrial Organization/Organizational Behavior Analysis
Rachel Geman (Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein)
Implicit Bias/Propensity to Stereotype Evidence
Prof. Tanya Hernandez (Fordham Law)
Psychological Experts
Steven Sonnenberg (Paul Hastings)
FRIDAY, JUNE 6
Morning Session Moderator: Martin Schmelkin (Goldman Sachs)
8:45-10:00 THE FUTURE OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
Moderator: Linda M. Gadsby (Scholastic, Inc.)
Prof. Deborah Malamud (NYU Law)
Commentator: Prof. Michael Yelnosky (Roger Williams Law)
10:30-12:15 ARBITRATION AND ALTERNATIVES
Moderator: Justin M. Swartz (Outten & Golden)
Classwide Arbitration and Class Litigation: Selected Issues
David B. Ross (Seyfarth Shaw)
Joseph M. Sellers (Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll)
Non-Mutual Issue Preclusion
Ethan Brecher (Law Office of Ethan A. Brecher)
Frederick Braid (Holland & Knight)
Peer Review and Peer Advocates
Prof. Anne Lofaso (West Virginia Law)
12:30-2:00 Lunch
Hon. Richard F. Griffin, Jr. (General Counsel, NLRB)
Introduction: James G. Paulsen (Regional Director, NLRB Region 29)
Afternoon Session Moderator: Kerri L. Stone (Florida International Law)
2:00-3:30 PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY ISSUES
Moderator: Pearl Zuchlewski (Kraus & Zuchlewski)
Rule 4.2 Issues (including Agency Bypassing Corporate Counsel)
Daniel M. Young (Wofsey, Rosen, Kweskin & Kuriansky)
Ethical Issues for In-House Counsel
Andrew Herzig (Kauff McGuire & Margolis; former director of labor relations, NBCUniversal)
A special registration fee of $200 per day is available for government employees and employees of public interest organizations and labor unions.
CLE: A total of 12.5 hours of New York State Continuing Legal Education credits, including 1.5 hours of Ethics/Professionalism credit, are available.