Admitted
1984, Wisconsin; 1986, New York; 1987, District of Columbia; U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia; U.S. District Court, District of Maryland; U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; U.S. Supreme Court
Law School
University of Wisconsin-Madison, J.D., cum laude, 1984
Law School Graduation Year
1984
College
Union College, B.A., summa cum laude, 1980
Memberships
District of Columbia Bar; New York State and American Bar Associations; National Employment Lawyers Association.
Biographical
Phi Beta Kappa. Member, Wisconsin Law Review, 1982-1983. Founder, Wisconsin Women's Law Journal, 1983-1984. Clerkship, Justice William Bablitch, Wisconsin Supreme Court, 1984-1985. Women's Law and Public Policy Fellowship, Georgetown University Law Center, 1985-1986. Author: State v. Dean: A Compulsory Process Analysis of the Inadmissibility of Polygraph Evidence, Wisconsin Law Review 237, 1984; Under Bail Reform Act ‘Preventive Detention’ Prevents Due Process, Legal Times, July 17, 1989; with Bernabei, L., Practicing Public Interest Law In A Private Public Interest Law Firm, 96 W. Va. L. Rev. 293, Winter, 1993-1994; Yes: There is a Duty to Air a Variety of Viewpoints, ABA Journal (June 1996); One Round Too Many, Legal Times, Jan. 26, 1998; Judge Needs Gag Order for Spouse, Legal Times, Feb. 16, 1998; with Bernabei, L., Harassment vs. The Reasonable Employer, Legal Times (July 13, 1998); with Eisenberg, R., Hiring Minds Want to Know: Increasingly Popular Psychological Testing of Job Applicants May Violate ADA, Legal Times (February 8, 1999); with Kabat, A., Electronic Discovery in Employment Discrimination Cases, TRIAL (December, 1999); Judicial Legislation Run Amok: New Limits on Punitive Damages Imposed, Legal Times, July 12, 1999; Damages Issues in Employment Discrimination Cases: Expert Testimony in Sexual Harassment and Other Employment Discrimination Cases Aafter Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, in WOMEN AND THE LAW, 2A-5- 2A-1 (Carol Lefcourt ed., 1999); Family Leave Lives On, National Law Journal, June 24, 2001 (D. Katz and A. Kumin); Employment Cases: Wins for Both Sides, National Law Journal, August 5, 2002 (D. Katz and L. Banks). Co-Designer: Stopping Sexual Harassment, a training CD-ROM and Web-based training product. Panelist: Current Developments in Employment Law, ALI-ABA, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1998-2000, 2002-2003; Employment Discrimination and Civil Rights Actions in Federal and State Courts, ALI-ABA, Charleston, South Carolina, 1999; Advanced Employment L