EPLI ExecuSummit - Fall Session - ExecuSummit Co-Chairs:

19th Annual Employment Practices Liability Insurance ExecuSummit

Fall-Session - ExecuSummit Co-Chairs:

Dove A.E. Burns
Partner
Kaufman Dolowich LLP

Dove A. E. Burns focuses her practice on labor and employment and commercial litigation.

Ms. Burns’ broad depth of experience includes defending clients in a variety of areas including class actions, complex wage and hour matters, discrimination and harassment claims, trade secrets, crypto/blockchain, sexual misconduct, fiduciary claims, and restrictive covenant disputes.

She is an accomplished trial attorney with experience defending corporate clients from Fortune 500 companies to individual executives. Ms. Burns also routinely represents professional service providers, multibillion-dollar international restaurant chains, hospitals, municipalities, housing authorities, nonprofits, higher education institutions, and boards of directors in a variety of high-exposure matters.

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Mercedes Colwin

Founding Partner of New York Offices

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP.

Mercedes Colwin, a highly successful trial attorney, is the founding partner of GRSM’s New York City Office. She handles a wide variety of litigation, including employment law, commercial litigation, class actions, products liability, professional liability, wage and hour class actions, defamation and related First Amendment claims, civil rights violations and criminal law.

Mercedes has defended thousands of cases throughout the country to a favorable result and won over ninety percent of her numerous trials and arbitrations. She regularly litigates business disputes and defends corporations and executives of Fortune 500 companies accused of wrongdoing, including claims of sexual misconduct.

Prior to private practice, Mercedes served as an Administrative Law Judge for the New York State Division of Human Rights. During these nine years of service, while a partner at a major regional New York law firm, she presided over three thousand cases brought under federal and state discrimination laws.

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Moderator: Robyn Silvermintz
Partner
Kaufman Borgeest & Ryan LLP

Robyn Silvermintz is a partner in the firm’s Employment and Workplace Management, Professional Liability Defense, and Commercial Litigation groups. Robyn defends employers against a wide variety of claims, in federal and state courts, including discrimination, sexual harassment, failure to hire and/or promote, wrongful termination, retaliation, wage and hour, employment contract disputes, theft of trade secrets, and enforcement of covenants not to compete. In addition, she counsels clients on best employment practices.

Robyn also handles labor matters for clients with unionized workforce and has successfully defended employers before various administrative agencies, including, but not limited to, the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, National Labor Relations Board, New York State Division of Human Rights and New Jersey Division on Civil Rights.

Robyn has been co-chair and presenter at the Employment Practices Liability Insurance ExecuSummit since 2015 and has been invited to speak at other conferences on employment and diversity and inclusion topics.

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