2025 Labor and Employment Law Forum
Date: Mar 5, 2025 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Location: New Jersey Law Center, New Brunswick, and Online
Member Price: $187.00
Non-Member Price: $234.00
Section Price: $176.00
Areas of Law: Labor & Employment
Earn up to 6.9 credits, including 1.0 in Ethics! (More Information)
Keynote
Moderator
- Domenick Carmagnola, Esq.
- Past President, New Jersey State Bar Association
Carmagnola & Ritardi, LLC, Morristown - Daniel R. Dowdy, Esq.
- Selikoff & Cohen, PA, Mount Laurel
- Yvette Gibbons, Esq.
- Past President, Essex County Bar Association
Employment Compliance Strategies, LLC, South Orange - Katrina M. Homel, Esq.
- New Jersey Education Association, Trenton
- Robert T. Szyba, Esq.
- Seyfarth Shaw, New Yorkis a Partner in the Labor & Employment Department of Seyfarth Shaw LLP in New York City, where he defends and counsels employers in a wide range of employment-related issues, including background check and Fair Credit Reporting Act violations, “ban the box” issues, prevailing wage requirements, wage and hour compliance, whistleblower retaliation, family and medical leave compliance and interference/retaliation claims, paid sick leave, and discrimination/harassment. He also advises clients on preventive employment counseling, pre-litigation strategy and litigation avoidance, alternate dispute resolution and mandatory arbitration programs, and employment policies and procedures.
Admitted to practice in the state and federal courts of New Jersey and New York, Mr. Szyba serves on the Executive Committee of the Labor & Employment Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association. He has been Co-Chair of the Ethics & Professional Responsibility Subcommittee of the American Bar Association Labor & Employment Law Section’s Employment Rights & Responsibilities Committee.
Mr. Szyba has served on the Alumni Advisory Board of the Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal and as a member of the Sidney Reitman Employment Law American Inn of Court. He is a former Editor-in-Chief of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s New Jersey Labor & Employment Law Quarterly and has lectured for ICLE, NELA-NJ, the American and New York State Bar Associations, and other organizations.
Mr. Szyba received his undergraduate degree, cum laude, from Berklee College of Music and his J.D., cum laude, from Hofstra University School of Law, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal and a member of Hofstra’s Moot Court Association.
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Presenters
- Justice Michael Noriega
- New Jersey Supreme Court
- Victor A. Afanador, Esq.
- Lite Depalma Greenberg & Afanador, LLC, Newark
- Martin W. Aron, Esq.
- Jackson Lewis P.C., Berkeley Heights
- Raymond M. Baldino, Esq.
- Zazzali, P.C., Newark
- Dean L. Burrell, Esq.
- Arbitrator-Mediator, Burrell Dispute Resolution, Morristown
- Nicole Espin, Esq.
- Fisher & Phillips LLP, New Providence
- Perry Farhat, Esq.
- Director, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, RWJBarnabas Health, Cherry Hill
- Eileen S. King English, Esq.
- King English Immigration Law LLC, Freehold
- James La Rocca, Esq.
- Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, New York
- Scott R. Malyk, Esq.
- Meyner and Landis, Newark
- Suzanne M. McSorley, Esq.
- Stevens & Lee, Lawrenceville
- Kenneth A. Rosenberg, Esq.
- Fox Rothschild LLP, Morristown
- David B. Rubin, Esq.
- David B. Rubin, P.C., Metuchen
- Ravi Sattiraju, Esq.
- Sattiraju & Tharney, LLP, East Windsor
- Steven W. Suflas, Esq.
- Holland & Hart LLP, Salt Lake City
- Renada Williams, Esq.
- Kenneth Cole, Union
Every year, New Jersey’s leading labor and employment lawyers attend "The Forum" to keep up to date on the latest law and hear sophisticated analysis from seasoned practitioners.
Join us this year as for several distinguished panels of labor and employment lawyers on pressing issues facing the practice.
Attendees will gain insight into how to navigate the anticipated impact of the new presidential administration on labor and employment law, hear key takeaways of recent cases from Steve Suflas's ever-popular case law update, as well as an interesting discussion on the ethical considerations of representing public and private entities, and more.
Don’t miss this opportunity to receive targeted, useful information that you can immediately use in practice.
Preliminary program agenda:
- 9:00 | Introduction
- 9:05 | Impact of the New Administration on Labor Law
- Moderator: Daniel R. Dowdy, Esq.
- Speakers: James La Rocca, Esq.; Raymond M. Baldino, Esq.; Dean L. Burrell, Esq. - 10:00 | Impact of the New Administration on Employment Law
- Moderator: Yvette Gibbons, Esq.
- Speakers: Kenneth A. Rosenberg, Esq.; Renada Williams, Esq.; Perry Farhat, Esq. - 10:55 | What Labor and Employment Attorneys Need to Know About Immigration
- Moderator: Katrina M. Homel, Esq.
- Speakers: Justice Michael Noriega; Eileen King English, Esq.; Scott R. Malyk, Esq. - 11:45 | Lunch
- 12:45 | Ethical Considerations for Representing Entities
- Moderator: Robert T. Szyba, Esq.
- Speakers: Suzanne M. McSorley, Esq.; David B. Rubin, Esq. - 1:35 | Case Law Update
- Speaker: Steven W. Suflas, Esq. - 2:20 | Break
- 2:30 | Wage and Hour Update
- Speaker: Nicole Espin, Esq.; Ravi Sattiraju, Esq. - 3:15 | Impact of Technology in Trial Practice
- Moderator: Domenick Carmagnola, Esq.
- Speakers: Victor A. Afanador, Esq.; Martin W. Aron, Esq. - 4:00 | Adjourn
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