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Iris Halpern
About Iris
Biography
Iris Halpern is an attorney at Rathod Mohamedbhai LLC. Her practice focuses on employment discrimination and constitutional civil rights litigation. Iris has been passionately fighting for plaintiffs and their civil rights for her entire legal career.
Before coming to Rathod Mohamedbhai, Iris worked as a trial attorney for over seven years, ultimately serving as the Senior Trial Attorney and an Acting Supervisory Attorney in the Denver Field Office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. At the EEOC, Iris’ work focused on seeking relief for victims, frequently in systemic and large class cases, under federal antidiscrimination statutes including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act.
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Licensed in Colorado for 7 years
State: Colorado
Acquired: 2019
No misconduct found
Licensed in New York for 17 years
State: New York
Acquired: 2009
No misconduct found
Licensed in Massachusetts for 17 years
State: Massachusetts
Acquired: 2008
No misconduct found
Location
Rathod Mohamedbhai LLC
2701 Lawrence St Ste 100, Denver, CO, 80205-2226
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Experience
Honors
2016
Chair’s Honor Award, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
2016
Case of the Year, EEOC and Baltazar et al. v. Vail Run Resorts, Colorado Trial Lawyers Association
2015
Award of Service, Government of the United States
2009
United States-Canada Fulbright Scholar, United States Fulbright Commission
Work Experience
2020 - Present
Adjunct Professor, University Of Colorado Law School
2017 - Present
Attorney, Rathod Mohamedbhai LLC
2010 - 2017
Senior Trial Attorney / Acting Supervisory Attorney, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
2008 - 2009
Attorney, Legal Services of Central New York
Associations
One Colorado
Board Member and C4 Chair
Colorado Wage Theft Task Force
Executive Committee
Colorado Bar Association Civil Rights Section
Member
Colorado Bar Association Labor & Employment Section
Member
Colorado Women’s Bar Association
Member
Colorado LGBT Bar Association
Member
Colorado Trial Lawyers Association
Member
Lawyers’ Civil Rights Coalition
Member
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, LGBT Working Group
Sample of Legal Cases
Chavez et al. v. Board of County Commissioners of Lake County, et al, Civ. No. 18-cv-03249 (D. Colo 2020)
$875,000 Settlement
C&P Family Farms Restaurants LLC d/b/a The White Fence Farms et al. v. Katina Gatchis, Case No. 2018cv30797
$675,000 settlement
EEOC et al. v. A&E Tire, Co., Civ. No. 1:17-cv-02362 (D. Colo. 2017)
$60,000 settlement
EEOC v. Dish Network, LLC, Civ. No. 1:13-cv-03294 (D. Colo. 2013)
$1,250,000 publicly conciliated settlement
Education
2008
University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law
JD - Juris Doctor
2002
Tufts University
Bachelor of Arts
Speaking Engagements
2019
Colorado Trial Lawyers Association
Investigation and Discovery in Sexual Assault and Harassment Cases, in Civil Justice for Victims of Sexual Harassment & Assault in the #MeToo Era
2019
Colorado LGBT Bar Association
Federal Employment Discrimination Laws (LGBTQ Employees and Title VII)
2018
Employment Law Conference
Broader Perspectives on #MeToo – Thoughts on Hostile Work Environments from Inside and Outside the EEOC
2017
PELA Brown Bag CLE
Sexual History Questions Under FRE 412
2016
Training for Day Laborers
Employment Discrimination and Your Rights
2016
Community Panel
Criminal Conviction History and Employment
2016
Colorado Bar Association CLE
Hot Topics in Employment Law, EEOC Updates
2016
Citizens Academy
Employment Discrimination
2014
7th Annual Human Trafficking Symposium
Employment Discrimination Law and Human Trafficking
2013
Training
LGBTQ Employment Discriminatio
Publications
2019
Colorado Trial Lawyers Association’s TRIAL TALK
Using the Rules of Evidence in Discovery to Protect Plaintiffs in Sexual Harassment Cases
2014
BNA Treatise WORKPLACE DATA: LAW AND LITIGATION
E-Discovery in the Workplace: Employee Perspective
2014
American Bar Association
E-Discovery in the Workplace: Employee Perspective
2013
National Employment Lawyers Association, The Summit for Workers’ Rights
Taming the Digital Demon, A Practical Guide for Managing Aggressive ESI Discovery Requests from Defendants (Working Paper)
2009
Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Rape, Incest, and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird: On Alabama’s Legal Construction of Gender and Sexuality in the Context of Racial Subordination
2008
Buffalo Human Rights Law Review
Tracing the Contours of Transnational Corporations’ Human Rights Obligations in the Twenty-First Century
2006
Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law and Justice
Increasing Healthcare Coverage for Women of Color in the Workplace: A proposal for Legislative Change in Labor Law
Languages
Spanish
Hebrew