The growing national conversation on sexual harassment in the workplace and the #MeToo movement has focused new attention on confidentiality clauses in employment and settlement agreements, particularly for victims of sexual harassment. Last week, California … Read more
On Tuesday, November 28, 2017, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Digital Realty Trust v. Somers, a case in which the Court will decide when employees can challenge retaliation under the whistleblower protection provision … Read more
A federal jury on Monday awarded a transgender professor, Dr. Rachel Tudor, $1.165 million in a groundbreaking Title VII sex discrimination case. This case is the first federal sex discrimination case with a transgender plaintiff to go … Read more
Washington, D.C. – On November 11, 2017, Linda M. Correia was inducted as a Fellow of The College of Labor & Employment Lawyers, a non-profit professional association honoring the leading lawyers nationwide in the practice … Read more
Washington, D.C. (August 22, 2017) – Correia & Puth, PLLC was named by U.S. News and World Report to its 2018 Best Law Firms© list in the areas of Civil Rights, Litigation (Labor & Employment … Read more
Today the U.S. Supreme Court decided to review the issue of whether the Dodd-Frank Act prohibits retaliation against whistleblowers who report possible securities law violations internally to their company but who have not filed with … Read more
In a landmark decision, a unanimous three-judge panel from the Seventh Circuit became the first federal appellate court to recognize Title IX’s prohibition against sex discrimination as a direct protection for transgender students’ right to … Read more
May 10, 2017 (Washington, D.C.) – Three students and two former students of Howard University filed a complaint in federal court asserting that Howard failed to respond reasonably to their complaints of sexual violence in … Read more
Super Lawyers has selected Linda M. Correia and Jonathan C. Puth of Correia & Puth, PLLC to the 2017 Washington, DC Super Lawyers list. Ms. Correia and Mr. Puth are recognized leaders in the law and … Read more
