18th Annual Employment Practices Liability Insurance ExecuSummit
Fall-Session - ExecuSummit Co-Chairs:
Dove A.E. Burns
Partner
Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP
Dove A.E. Burns focuses her practice on employment law and professional liability. She has experience defending corporate clients and executives, professional
service providers, multibillion-dollar international restaurant chains, hospitals, municipalities, housing authorities, nonprofits, and boards of directors in a variety of high-exposure
matters.
She has tried numerous cases to verdict and has resolved disputes through arbitration, mediation, and conciliation.
Ms. Burns’ experience includes the following:
- Representing executives in matters involving allegations of wrongdoing, including claims of sexual misconduct, racial harassment, and corporate
malfeasance
- Handling complex wage and hour matters
- Restrictive covenant disputes
- Securities and antitrust litigation
- Defending higher education Institutions
- Condominium/co-op law
- Defending lawyers, mental health professionals, architects, engineers, real estate professionals, property managers, and registered
representatives regulated by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
- General liability, municipal liability, and commercial matters
She provides proactive counsel to employers, handles employment and severance agreements, drafts policy manuals and other management documents and conducts training
sessions to aide employers in minimizing and the risk of litigation.
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.
Joel M. Wertman
Partner
Winget, Spadafora & Schwartzberg, LLP
Joel Wertman, a partner in WSSLLP’s Philadelphia office, handles a wide range of litigation matters, principally in the employment law and securities industries. He
has represented clients in a wide range of litigation matters that include disputes in state court, federal court and arbitration, as well as employment disputes seeking monetary and injunctive
relief in state and federal courts. Mr. Wertman’s experience includes, but is not limited to, representing corporate defendants in matters alleging wrongful termination, wage and hour
violations, various levels and types of harassment, corporate malfeasance, restrictive covenant disputes and transition disputes. Mr. Wertman also provides consultations and presentations to
clients to ensure they are in compliance with industry specific standards of practice related to their employment practices.
Moderator: Robyn Silvermintz
Partner
Kaufman Borgeest & Ryan LLP
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