Iris Halpern
Civil Rights and Employment Discrimination Attorney
- 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.
- Practice Areas
- Civil Rights
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Discrimination, Employment, Fair Housing, Police Misconduct, Privacy Law
- Employment Law
- Employee Benefits, Employment Contracts, Employment Discrimination, ERISA, Overtime & Unpaid Wages, Sexual Harassment, Whistleblower, Wrongful Termination
- Video Conferencing
- Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice
- Colorado
- Colorado Supreme Court
- Since 2019
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- Languages
- Hebrew:
Spoken, Written - Spanish:
Spoken
- Professional Experience
- Adjunct Professor of Law
- University of Colorado-Boulder Law School
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2020 –
Current
- Attorney
- Rathod Mohamedbhai LLC
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2018 –
Current
- Senior Trial Attorney / Acting Supervisory Attorney
- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
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2010 –
2017
- Attorney
- Legal Services of Central New York
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2008 –
2009
- Education
- University of California, Berkeley School of Law
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- Awards
- Chair’s Honor Award
- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
- 2016
- Case of the Year
- Colorado Trial Lawyers Association (CTLA)
- 2016
- EEOC and Baltazar et al. v. Vail Run Resorts
- Award of Service
- Government of the United States of America
- 2015
- United States-Canada Fulbright Scholar
- United States Fulbright Commission
- 2009
- Professional Associations
- One Colorado
- Board Member and C4 Chair
- Current
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- Colorado Wage Theft Task Force
- Executive Committee Member
- Current
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- Colorado Bar Association Labor & Employment Section
- Member
- Current
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- Colorado Women’s Bar Association
- Member
- Current
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- Colorado LGBT Bar Association
- Member
- Current
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- Colorado Trial Lawyers Association
- Member
- Current
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- Lawyers’ Civil Rights Coalition
- Member
- Current
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- Colorado Bar Association Civil Rights Section
- Member
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2018 –
2019 -
- Publications
- Using the Rules of Evidence in Discovery to Protect Plaintiffs in Sexual Harassment Cases
- Colorado Trial Lawyers Association’s TRIAL TALK
- 2019
- E-Discovery in the Workplace: Employee Perspective
- American Bar Association (ABA)
- 2014
- E-Discovery in the Workplace: Employee Perspective
- Bloomberg BNA 2014 Treatise Supplement WORKPLACE DATA: LAW AND LITIGATION
- 2014
- Taming the Digital Demon, A Practical Guide for Managing Aggressive ESI Discovery Requests from Defendants (Working Paper)
- National Employment Lawyers Association, The Summit for Workers’ Rights
- 2013
- 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
- Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
- 2009
- Tracing the Contours of Transnational Corporations’ Human Rights Obligations in the Twenty-First Century
- Buffalo Human Rights Law Review
- 2008
- Increasing Healthcare Coverage for Women of Color in the Workplace: A proposal for Legislative Change in Labor Law (Student Note)
- Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice
- 2006
- Websites & Blogs
- Website
- Rathod Mohamedbhai Profile
- Contact & Address
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