Lance Gotko Speaks on Panel at Centerforce's Employment Law and HR Summit

Lance Gotko, head of Friedman Kaplan’s employment practice, spoke on a panel at Centerforce’s Employment Law and HR Summit. The panel, titled, “Discrimination, Harassment & Retaliation in a High-Enforcement Jurisdiction,” examined key differences between federal standards and expanded protections under the New York State Human Rights Law and the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination, how to mitigate retaliation-in-employment litigation, investigation protocols that withstand agency review and litigation challenges, managing discrimination and harassment claims involving hybrid and multi-state workforces, and lessons from recent enforcement trends and litigation outcomes in the Tri-State region. Other panelists included Tracy Udell, Chief EEO Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Ronald Prague, Chief Legal Officer of Origin Wireless, John Stanley, Head of ER and EEO Investigations at Novo Nordisk, Joe Vento, Partner at Seyfarth Shaw LLP, and Kelly Robreno Koster, Partner at Greenberg Traurig.