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
Managing Partner, Connecticut Offices
Kaufman Dolowich
Dove A. E. Burns focuses her practice on labor and employment and commercial litigation.
Ms. Burns’ broad depth of experience includes defending clients in a variety of areas including class actions, complex wage and hour matters, discrimination and
harassment claims, trade secrets, crypto/blockchain, sexual misconduct, fiduciary claims, and restrictive covenant disputes.
She is an accomplished trial attorney with experience defending corporate clients from Fortune 500 companies to individual executives. Ms. Burns also routinely
represents professional service providers, multibillion-dollar international restaurant chains, hospitals, municipalities, housing authorities, nonprofits, higher education institutions, and boards
of directors in a variety of high-exposure matters.
She defends clients against alleged violations of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), Title VII, the Americans with
Disabilities Act (ADA), False Claims Act and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). She frequently represents employers before various state and federal agencies including the Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), New York State Division of Human Rights, Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities and the U.S. Departments of Labor and Health. She also
handles claims under Employment Practices Liability Insurance (EPLI) and Directors and Officers (D&O) and Errors and Omissions (E&O) policies.
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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