Activities and achievements

DiMuroGinsberg takes pride in its past achievements and active participation in the legal profession.  Our attorneys demonstrate varied and passionate engagement in a range of legal subjects through publications, lectures, and memberships in various organizations. 

Learn more about our activities and past accomplishments:

• In the news
• Publications and lectures
• Historical highlights

The Virginia Employment Law Letter

DiMuroGinsberg belongs to the Employers Counsel Network (ECN).  The ECN includes top-level law firms—one in each state plus Washington D.C. and Canada—that advise and represent employers regarding workplace legal issues and disputes.  Each firm in the network was selected because of its outstanding reputation in the field of employment law. Attorneys at these firms are also well known as editors of their state's Employment Law Letter.

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Archived Articles

• Can employers discriminate against younger workers?
  Virginia Employment Law Letter, M. Lee Smith Publishers (October 23, 2009)

• Are single childless workers shortchanged by benefit plans?
  Virginia Employment Law Letter, M. Lee Smith Publishers (November 2, 2007)

In the news

• The Justice Department adopts new Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA") Accessibility Standards, which apply to virtually all businesses open to the public. Read Jonathan Mook’s summary of the of the significant aspects of the new Justice Department Accessibility Standards as well as other accessibility initiatives of the Departments of Justice and Transportation, including Web site accessibility and movie captioning.

• $3 million arbitration award upheld by D.C. Court of Appeals

• House Republican Staffer Introduced Alleged NSA Leaker to Reporter, Newsweek.com, DeClassified Blog, April 16, 2010
  

  Declassified has learned that a member of the Republican staff of the House Intelligence Committee was the individual who introduced a senior National Security Agency official, indicted earlier this week for leaking classified information, to the journalist who allegedly received and wrote about the secret material.......

  Nina Ginsberg......confirms that her client was the indictment’s “Person A” but says Roark did nothing wrong. "The government investigated her connection to these allegations and found no wrongdoing," Ginsberg says.

• Should ratings firms be on the hook for bank’s books?, Reuters, April 15, 2010

• March, 2010: Bernard J. DiMuro and Nina Ginsberg selected as 2010 Washington, D.C. SuperLawyers for Business Litigation and Criminal Defense, respectively.

• January 25, 2010 John M. Tran is inducted into the Virginia Law Foundation's 2010 Class of Fellows

• Ben DiMuro selected by his peers as one of the region's outstanding lawyers in business litigation in the SuperLawyers Corporate Counsel Edition 2010

• June, 2009: Bernard J. DiMuro and Nina Ginsberg selected for inclusion on the 2009 Virginia SuperLawyers list. Stacey Rose Harris selected as a Rising Star.

• December, 2008: Bernard J. DiMuro selected by Virginia Business Magazine as one of Virginia's Legal Elite in the area of Civil Litigation.

• June, 2008: Bernard J. DiMuro and Nina Ginsberg selected as Virginia SuperLawyers

• April, 2008: Bernard J. DiMuro and Nina Ginsberg featured in SuperLawyers Corporate Counsel Edition

• February, 2008: Bernard J. DiMuro and Nina J. Ginsberg listed in the Virginia Super Lawyers magazine by Law & Politics.

• December, 2007: Bernard J. DiMuro selected by Virginia Business Magazine as one of Virginia's Legal Elite in the area of Civil Litigation.

• July 2007: Nina Ginsberg chosen as a Virginia SuperLawyer

• December, 2006: DiMuroGinsberg Partners Selected to Virginia's Legal Elite

• June, 2006: Bernard J. DiMuro selected as finalist for the 2006 Trial Lawyer of the Year award by Trial Lawyers for Public Justice.

• December, 2005: Bernard J. DiMuro selected by Virginia Business magazine as one of Virginia's Legal Elite for 2005 in Criminal Defense.

• December, 2002: Bernard J. DiMuro selected as one of Virginia’s Legal Elite in civil litigation law for 2002 by Virginia Business magazine.

Publications & lectures

• "Must Employers Reasonably Accommodate Medical Marijuana Use?", Bender’s Labor & Employment Bulletin, July 2010 Copyright © 2010 by LexisNexis Matthew Bender. Reprinted with permission from LexisNexis. All rights reserved.

• Jonathan Mook - featured blogger, The ADA at Twenty: A Time for Celebration and Reflection. LexisNexis, Workers Compensation Law Center

• Jonathan Mook and Michael Barnsback to present FMLA Master Class for Virginia Employers

• Ben DiMuro and Tom Hicks to speak at the 3^rd Annual Advanced Business Litigation Institute to be held in Charlottesville, VA in May

• January 22, 2010
  Estate Planning Dilemma, "2010 Estate Planning Opportunities" by Tom Hicks

• December 2009
  "Ninth Circuit Holds Physical Test Is Medical Exam", Bender's Labor and Employment Bulletin
  Jonathan Mook

• November 9, 2009
  New Day for the ADA: EEOC Unveils Major Changes in New Proposed Regs
  Burton Fishman, Jennifer Campbell and Jonathan Mook

• September 2009
  "Critical Business Issues for Advising Clients in Troubled Times", 27th Annual Business Law Seminar, Virginia CLE Bernard J. DiMuro, Stacey R. Harris

• June 10, 2009
  Mental Illness Discrimination Claims After the NEW ADA Amendments
  Carol R. Miaskoff, Stephen P. Sonnenberg, Jonathan R. Mook

• January 20, 2009
  Jonathan Mook - featured blogger, "The ADA Amendments Act: What It Means For You
  LexisNexis, Workers Compensation Law Center

• DiMuroGinsberg successfully represents law firm client’s rights to commercial free speech.

Historical highlights

Since its inception in 1990, DiMuroGinsberg has had the privilege of being involved in many unique and groundbreaking cases.  The firm's diversified practice has given us the opportunity to represent the individual, the small businessman and the international conglomerate in a variety of matters.  Some of these cases have made national headlines due to their interest to the public.

Please take a closer look at some of the firm’s proudest moments:

• January, 2009: DiMuroGinsberg expands to 12 attorneys
• August 7, 2006: "Facing a lawsuit, OPM reinstates CFC Charities" by Tim Kauffman, Federal Times
• October 2003: $800,000 verdict against American National Red Cross for negligence
• August 2002: Attorneys Win $178 million for shareholders in securities fraud case – one of the largest verdicts ever awarded in Virginia's history.
• June, 2002: Bernard J. DiMuro begins term as President of the Virginia State Bar
• May, 2002: DiMuroGinsberg & Mook partner named one of Washington's 75 Best Lawyers

Pro bono activities

DiMuroGinsberg is committed, as a firm and individually, to assisting in the legal profession's efforts to ensure that all Virginians have access to our legal system.  They provide pro bono legal services to various Virginia organizations:

• The Fairfax Legal  Aid Society
• Lawyers Helping Lawyers
• Special Olympics Virginia
• The Virginia Law Foundation
• Virginia Lawyers Referral Services

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