About
Kristen Sinisi represents personnel in employment litigation, such as statutory discrimination and retaliation claims, and common-regulation claims springing up inside the place of job setting. Ms. Sinisi has pursued a variety of employment-related claims, consisting of claims for discrimination, retaliation, breach of agreement, and whistleblower claims arising below the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Dodd-Frank Act, False Claims Act, and Defense Contractor Whistleblower Protection Act. Ms. Sinisi additionally has revel in difficult employers’ restrictive covenants, consisting of non-compete provisions.
Prior to becoming a member of Bernabei & Kabat, Ms. Sinisi served because the Chief Law Clerk to the Honorable Dan Pellegrini at the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, where she analyzed lots of employment issues in the appellate context, including tenure denials, breach of contract claims, professional licensure suspensions and revocations, labor-union/management disputes bobbing up under collective bargaining agreements, unemployment compensation denials, and severa civil rights subjects.
Before clerking, Ms. Sinisi performed a key position in acquiring a seminal ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit regarding the pleading popular relevant to whistleblower proceedings filed underneath the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. In the identical case, Ms. Sinisi effectively argued earlier than the USA District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania that SOX’s whistleblower provision applies to entirely owned subsidiaries of publicly traded companies, even with admire to movement taken prior to the enactment of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and therefore afforded the complainant safety.
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Legal Issues
- Employment Law
- Employee Benefits, Employment Contracts, Employment Discrimination, ERISA, Overtime & Unpaid Wages, Sexual Harassment, Whistleblower, Wrongful Termination
- Civil Rights
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Discrimination, Employment, Fair Housing, Police Misconduct, Privacy Law
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Experience
- Senior Associate
Bernabei & Kabat, PLLC - Chief Law Clerk to the Honorable Dan Pellegrini
Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court
Educations
Graduation year: 2011
Graduation year: 2008
