Lynne Bernabei - Washington, DC

Overview

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1977
    J.D.
    Honors: cum laude

• Non Legal Education

  • Harvard University, 1972
    B.A.
    Honors: magna cum laude

Current Employment Position(s)

• Partner

Past Positions

• Honorable William B. Bryant, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Clerk, 1977 - 1978

Classes and Seminars

• American Law Institute-American Bar Association, Faculty Member
  
• District of Columbia Bar, Teacher

Representative Cases

• Successfully prosecuted major sex harassment and retaliation case on behalf of 11 employees against a large broadcaster. These cases led to enactment of New York State and New York City laws to protect unpaid interns from sex harassment and other forms of workplace discrimination.
• Represented employees and managers in the financial and mortgage finance industries who blew the whistle on corporate illegalities, financial fraud, and other violations of federal laws.
• Successful representation of female and male employees who have been sexually harassed or assaulted.
• Successful representation of female and minority professors in tenure denial cases and termination cases across the country.
• Representation of corporate executives in age discrimination and whistleblower cases, and negotiation of severance packages on behalf of corporate executives, including provisions relating to stock options.
• Significant practice in representing government officials and employees who were retaliated against for having reported illegal conduct.

Published Works

Articles

• NAVIGATING THE NUANCES OF SARBANES-OXLEY AND DODD-FRANK WHISTLEBLOWER CLAIMS
  
• Lynne Bernabei, et al., “Ethical Duties and Standards in Disqualifying, Retaining, and Communicating with Expert Witnesses,” The Brief (American Bar Association), Nov. 2013
  
• Lynne Bernabei and Alan Kabat, “Law firms Penalizing Departing Partners? – That Goes Straight to the Penalty Box!”, The Practical Lawyer, October 2015
  
• Lynne Bernabei and Alan Kabat, “Invasions of privacy: Congress and state legislatures are properly barring employers’ demands for social-media passwords,” National Law Journal, July 23, 2012
  
• Lynne Bernabei and Alan Kabat, “The SEC properly expanded protection for attorney whistleblowers,” National Law Journal, Aug. 9, 2011
  
• Lynne Bernabei, Alan Kabat, and Jason Zuckerman, “Seven Questions for Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblowers to Ask,” The Practical Lawyer (ABA), October 2007, http://files.ali-cle.org/thumbs/datastorage/lacidoirep/articles/TPL1910_Bernabei-et-al_thumb.pdf
• Journal of Employment Discrimination, Editorial Board
• Labor Law Journal, Editorial Board
• Whistleblowers and the Law, The Washington Lawyer, June, 2001
• Lynne Bernabei: In Tune with Whistle-Blowers, The American Lawyer, July/August, 1988
• The Women to See, The City Paper, August, 1992

Bar Admissions

• District of Columbia
• U.S. District Court District of Maryland

Other Affiliations

• Labor Law Journal (Member, Editorial Board)
• Journal of Employment Discrimination
• American Bar Association (Member)
• College of Labor and Employment Lawyers (Member)
• National Employment Lawyers Association (Member)
• American Arbitration Association ("AAA")