10th Annual Employment Practices Liability Insurance ExecuSummit - Spring Session April 23 & 24, 2025 - Wednesday & Thursday Naples Grande Beach Resort, Naples, Florida
10th Annual Employment Practices Liability InsuranceExecuSummit - Spring SessionApril 23 & 24, 2025 - Wednesday & ThursdayNaples Grande Beach Resort, Naples, Florida

2025 ExecuSummit Co-Chairs:

Robyn Silvermintz
Partner
Kaufman Borgeest & Ryan LLP

 

Robyn Silvermintz is a partner in the firm’s Employment and Workplace Management, Professional Liability Defense, and Commercial Litigation groups. Robyn defends employers against a wide variety of claims, in federal and state courts, including discrimination, sexual harassment, failure to hire and/or promote, wrongful termination, retaliation, wage and hour, employment contract disputes, theft of trade secrets, and enforcement of covenants not to compete.  In addition, she counsels clients on best employment practices. 

 

Robyn also handles labor matters for clients with unionized workforce and has successfully defended employers before various administrative agencies, including, but not limited to, the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, National Labor Relations Board, New York State Division of Human Rights and New Jersey Division on Civil Rights.

 

Robyn has been co-chair and presenter at the Employment Practices Liability Insurance ExecuSummit since 2015 and has been invited to speak at other conferences on employment and diversity and inclusion topics.

Dove A.E. Burns
Partner
Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP

 

Dove A.E. Burns focuses her practice on employment law and professional liability. She has experience defending corporate clients and executives, professional service providers, multibillion-dollar international restaurant chains, hospitals, municipalities, housing authorities, nonprofits, and boards of directors in a variety of high-exposure matters.

She has tried numerous cases to verdict and has resolved disputes through arbitration, mediation, and conciliation.

 

Ms. Burns’ experience includes the following:

 

  • Representing executives in matters involving allegations of wrongdoing, including claims of sexual misconduct, racial harassment, and corporate malfeasance
  •     Handling complex wage and hour matters
  •     Restrictive covenant disputes
  •     Securities and antitrust litigation
  •     Defending higher education Institutions
  •     Condominium/co-op law
  •     Defending lawyers, mental health professionals, architects, engineers, real estate professionals, property managers, and registered representatives regulated by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
  •     General liability, municipal liability, and commercial matters

 

She provides proactive counsel to employers, handles employment and severance agreements, drafts policy manuals and other management documents and conducts training sessions to aide employers in minimizing and the risk of litigation.

Mercedes Colwin

Founding Partner of New York Offices

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP.

 

Mercedes Colwin is a partner in the New York office of Gordon & Rees. She handles a wide variety of litigation, including employment law, commercial litigation, class actions, products liability, professional liability, wage and hour class actions, civil rights violations and criminal law.

 

Ms. Colwin has successfully tried 48 cases to verdict in various jurisdictions throughout the country. Ms. Colwin regularly defends corporate executives from Fortune 500 companies accused of wrongdoing including claims of sexual misconduct. Prior to private practice, Ms. Colwin served as an Administrative Law Judge for the New York State Division of Human Rights.

 

During her nine years of service, while a partner at a major regional New York law firm, she presided over three thousand cases brought under the federal and state discrimination laws.

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