Lynne Bernabei
Work in Bernabei & Kabat, PLLC
Top Rated Family Law Attorney in Washington, DC
Discrimination, Employment, Contracts
1400 16th Street NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20036
About Lynne Bernabei
Practice Areas
- Discrimination
- Employment
- Contracts
Education
- Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1977J.D.
- Honors: cum laude
- Harvard University, 1972B.A.
- Honors: magna cum laude
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.
Classes and Seminars
- American Law Institute-American Bar Association, Faculty Member
- District of Columbia Bar, Teacher
Qualifications
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")
Past Positions
- Honorable William B. Bryant, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Clerk, 1977 - 1978
Articles
Published Works
- 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
Office Info
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