LGBTQ+ Employment Rights Webinar: A Focus on the Supreme Courts Landmark Decision

Jeff Kosbie represents plaintiffs in class actions and other complex lawsuits involving consumer protection, securities fraud and employment law. He previously worked as a staff attorney in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (2017-2018) and served as a Multidistrict Litigation Law Clerk to the Judges Lucy Koh, Beth Freeman, and Edward Davila of the Northern District of California (2018-2019).Jeff serves as Co-chair of Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom (“BALIF”), the nation’s oldest and largest association of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBTQI) persons in the field of law, and he is on the board of the BALIF Foundation. He has published multiple articles in law reviews related to the history of LGBTQ rights. Jeff is a 2015 graduate, magna cum laude, of Northwestern University School of Law and Northwestern University Graduate School where he received a J.D. and a Ph.D. in Sociology. While in law school, Jeff served as an Articles Editor of the Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy. He received his undergraduate degree, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, in Sociology from Brandeis University in 2006. Jeff is an attorney at Gibbs Law Firm in Oakland, California.

Thomas "Tom" J. Mew is a partner at Buckley Beal in Atlanta, GA. His practice covers a broad range of employment law matters including both individual and class action wage-and-hour, discrimination, and harassment litigation, as well as in arbitration and mediation. He is also an advisor on employment contracts, releases, and restrictive covenant issues. Tom is the co-author of “Georgia Motion Practice,” a guide to civil motion practice in Georgia’s trial and appellate courts and the co-author of “Georgia Employment Law.” He was named one of the Georgia legal community's "Rising Stars" for 2006, 2007 and 2009. In addition, Thomas represents Gerald Bostock, petitioner in Bostock v. Clayton County, Ga., and led the charge to secure this historic civil rights victory, which now ensures federal, uniform protection for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer employees from employment discrimination. The decision is a landmark for LGBTQ rights and human rights in the United States.

Joshua Goodbaum is a partner at Garrison, Levin-Epstein, Fitzgerald & Pirrotti, P.C., in New Haven, Connecticut, where he represents individuals in employment and civil rights matters. He has been recognized by Best Lawyers and SuperLawyers, is rated AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell, and is ranked by Lawdragon as one of the top 500 plaintiff employment lawyers in United States. Josh is an elected member of the Connecticut Bar Association House of Delegates and previously served as Chair of the Bar Association’s Labor & Employment Law Section. He has written and spoken locally and nationally on a variety of topics related to employment law. Josh graduated magna cum laude from both Yale University and Harvard Law School, where he was Supervising Editor of the Harvard Law Review. After law school, Josh served as a law clerk to then-Judge Neil M. Gorsuch on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.