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Doron Dorfman Related Seminars and Products

Associate Professor

Seton Hall Law School

Doron Dorfman is an Associate Professor at Seton Hall who specializes in health law, disability law, and employment law. In 2023, he was awarded the Michael J. Zimmer Memorial Award for a rising scholar who has made a significant contribution to the field of employment law, and in 2021, Dorfman was invited to testify before Congress on the relationship between vaccine requirements and anti-discrimination law. His work has been published widely in journals such as the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Cornell Law Review, New England Journal of Medicine, and the Law & Society Review. 

Ryan H. Nelson Related Seminars and Products

Assistant Professor of law

South Texas College of Law Houston

Ryan H. Nelson joined the faculty at South Texas College of Law Houston in 2021. His research focuses on leveraging the civil litigation and other dispute resolution systems to advance the rights of poor and other marginalized workers, most often with respect to discrimination, harassment, wages, leaves of absence, and accommodations. His scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in the Michigan Law Review, Fordham Law Review, BYU Law Review, Tennessee Law Review, Pepperdine Law Review, Yale Law and Policy Review, and the online companions to the NYU Law Review, California Law Review, and Vanderbilt Law Review. He has advised state attorneys’ general offices and other administrative agencies on employment law reforms and helped to draft associated proposed legislation and regulations. Moreover, he has provided legal commentary for Fox 26 Houston and in periodicals like Slate, USA Today, and the Houston Chronicle.

Before joining South Texas, Ryan completed a research fellowship with the Harvard Law School Project on Disability and taught on the adjunct faculty at Boston University School of Law, New England Law | Boston, and New York Law School. He also spent nearly a decade practicing labor and employment law, including as in-house employment law counsel for one of the world’s largest financial services companies and as an attorney with one of the top labor and employment law firms in the country where he specialized in workplace affirmative action law. He obtained his LL.M. from Harvard Law School where he was awarded the Irving Oberman Memorial Prize for Best Paper on Law and Social Change; his J.D., cum laude, from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, where he served on the Editorial Board of the Moot Court Honor Society; and his B.S.B.A. with a major in economics from the University of Florida where he was a National Merit Scholar and became an avid fan of Florida Gators football.

In his free time, Ryan enjoys trivia (he loves pub trivia and has appeared as a contestant on Jeopardy!, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, and The Hustler), karaoke (with a preference for country music and musical theater), and board games (his favorites include Pandemic Legacy, Hansa Teutonica, Sushi Go Party!, Ticket to Ride, and Chess).

Diane Soubly Related Seminars and Products

Of Counsel

Butzel

Diane M. Soubly is Of Counsel based in Butzel’s Ann Arbor office practicing in the areas of labor and employment law and litigation, ERISA and employee benefits law and litigation, Native American law, and appellate litigation.

Diane is the lead Co-Editor-in-Chief of the 1700-page second edition of the Bloomberg Law Workplace Harassment Law treatise (2018) and its on-line Update in progress.  She is the Contributing Editor to the Benefits Law Journal.  She also served as Chapter Monitor (Chapter 20 – Sexual and Other Forms of Harassment) and Senior Reviewer (Chapter 43 – Alternate Dispute Resolution) of the 2020 edition of the ABA/Bloomberg Law Employment Discrimination Law treatise.

Diane is one of a select few attorneys nationally who have been elected Fellows of both the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel, and she is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation (limited to 1% of lawyers licensed in each jurisdiction).

Included in Best Lawyers for many years, Diane is a member of the Michigan and Illinois bars, and she has been recognized as a Super Lawyer in both Illinois and Michigan.

With over 35 years of experience, Diane is a member of the bar of the United States Supreme Court and the First, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Eleventh Federal Circuit Courts of Appeal. She is an adjunct professor of law at Chicago-Kent College of Law, for which she developed four courses: Employee Benefits Law and Litigation, Workplace Harassment Law, and Privacy Rights in Employment for its nationally recognized Labor and Employment certification program, as well as Native American Law.

She is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School (1980, magna cum laude) and holds a PhD in English Literature (1981, with distinction), an MA (1971, with distinction), and a B.A. (1970, with honors, Phi Beta Kappa) from Wayne State University.