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Richard R. Renner
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Employment, Discrimination, Civil Rights
818 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 1000, Washington, DC 20006
About Richard R. Renner
Practice Areas
- Employment
- Discrimination
- Civil Rights
Education
- New York University School of Law, New York, New York, 1981J.D.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1978S.B.
- Major: Mathematics
Representative Cases
- Wallace v. Tesoro Corp., 796 F.3d 468 (5th Cir. 2015)
- Lawson v. FMR LLC, 134 S. Ct. 1158 (2014)
- Youssef v. FBI, 687 F.3d 397 (D.C. Cir. 2012)
- Sylvester v. Parexel Int'l LLC, ARB No. 07-123, 2011 WL 2165854 (2011)
- Schroeder v. Greater New Orleans Federal Credit Union, 664 F.3d 1016 (5th Cir. 2011)
- Bonds v. Leavitt, 629 F.3d 369 (4th Cir. 2011)
- Stone v. Instrumentation Laboratory Company, 591 F.3d 239 (4th Cir. 2009)
- Lucas v. Duncan, 574 F.3d 772 (D.C.Cir. 2009)
- Castellano-Chacon v. INS, 341 F.3d 533 (6th Cir. 2003)
- Vasquez v. Kutscher, 95 Ohio St.3d 280, 2002-Ohio-2125 (2002)
- Lonas v. Kail, 91 Ohio St.3d 1201, 740 N.E.2d 1103, 2001-Ohio-228 (2001)
- Charvat v. EORWA, 246 F.3d 607 (6th Cir. 2001)
- State ex rel. Russell v. Thomas, 85 Ohio St.3d 83, 1999-Ohio-435 (1999)
- Felton v. Felton, 79 Ohio St.3d 34, 1997-Ohio-302 (1997)
Classes and Seminars
- Presented “Overview of Whistleblower Protection Laws” to Reining In Retaliation & Winning Whistleblower Cases, NELA seminar, Boston, April 8, 2016.
- Submitted comments to OSHA about their new Whistleblower Complaint form, March 18, 2013
- Testified to District of Columbia Council Oversight Hearing on preventing wage theft, March 4, 2013
- Submitted comments to Advisory Committee on Civil Rules, 2013-03-01, expressing concern that restrictions on discovery will disadvantage whistleblowers, March 1, 2013
- Co-wrote amicus brief in Day v. Department of Homeland Security on behalf of the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA), February 28, 2013
- Submitted comments to U.S. Department of Labor on Rules of Practice and Procedure for Hearings Before the Office of Administrative Law Judges, February 4, 2013
- Submitted a written public comment and oral testimony to the Department of Labor's Whistleblower Protection Program Advisory Committee, January 29, 2013
- Submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, urging health insurance coverage for immigrants with lawful deferred status, October 21, 2012
- Submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) on regulations for handling whistleblower complaints under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) as modified by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
- Submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) on regulations for handling whistleblower complaints under the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CSPIA), Surface Transportation Assistance Act (STAA), National Transit System Security Act (NTSSA), and the Federal Rail Safety Act (FRSA).
- Presented "NTSSA Fact Sheet" on the National Transit System Security Act for the Executive Board of Local 689 of the Amalgamated Transit Union, 2010
- Presented "Ethics in the Face of Evil" to the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) Convention, 2010
- Submitted a report to the UN Universal Periodic Review of the Human Rights Council, on how the United States fails to comply with international human rights standards protecting whistleblowers, April 19, 2010
- Wrote amicus brief for Ohio Supreme Court in Peters v. Columbus Steel Castings Co., 2007-Ohio-4787, protecting widows from the arbitration agreements of the spouse's employer.
- Presented "The Most Pressing Issues in Representing Whistleblowers" to the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) Convention, 2009
- Presented "Sarbanes-Oxley and other federal whistleblower protections" to Ohio Employment Lawyers Association, 2004
- Presented "Informed Consent and the Obligation of Attorneys to Clients" for seminar in Akron, November 1, 1995
- Moderated seminar on ethics, professionalism and substance abuse for Tuscarawas County Law Library, November 28, 2001
- Presented Developments in Department of Labor Whistleblower Practice, NELA's 2013 Convention, June 26, 2013
- Presented "Getting The Lay Of The Land: An Overview Of Whistleblower Claims" to NELA's Fall Seminar, Shining The Light On Whistleblower & Retaliation Claims, October 18, 2013, Washington, DC.
- Co-wrote amicus brief for NELA in Hithon v. Tyson Foods, 11th Circuit Case No.13-11720-AA (pending), addressing the remedial benefits of awarding reasonable attorney's fees for victims of civil rights violations.
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- Ohio
- District of Columbia
- Maryland
- U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Ohio
- U.S. District Court Southern District of Ohio
- U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
- U.S. Court of Appeals 1st Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 10th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit
Other Affiliations
- National Employment Lawyers Association
- Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association
- Womens Bar Association
Past Positions
- National Whistleblowers Center
- CASA de Maryland
- Tate & Renner, Dover, Ohio
Articles
Published Works
- Co-wrote comments to EEOC on Revised EEO Management Directive 110 (Document ID EEOC-2014-0001-0001), 2014-04-25
- Submitted comments to OSHA on Procedures for Handling of Retaliation Complaints under Section 402 of the Food Safety Modernization Act (Document ID OSHA-2011-0859), 2014-04-14
- Presented Maintaining Ethical Grace in the Combat of Litigation, a paper and webinar sponsored by the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA), 2014-04-03
- Lead author of NELA amicus brief in Howe v. City of Akron, 2013 Against a $97,056.18 sanction imposed on civil rights attorneys. 2013-04-23.
- Presented Overview of Whistleblower Laws, American Bar Association's Labor and Employment Law Conference, November 9, 2013, in New Orleans, 2013
- "It Is Illegal To Punish Workers For Qualifying For Health Care Assistance,", KCNF Blog, 2013
- Whistleblower Flyer for Low-Income Workers' Clinics, KCNF Blog, 2013
- Whistleblower Protection Blog, Editor, 2012
- Blowing the Whistle, a letter to the editor, Scientific American, December, 2010
- A Union Victory at Case Farms web page article, 2007
- "Federal Environmental Whistleblower Complaints," in Employee Rights Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 29-34, Summer, 2002
Office Info
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- 43 years of experienceFederal, Employment, Sexual Harassment, Whistleblower, Wage & Hour, Wrongful Termination, Discrimination
- Civil Rights
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