Meika Freeman

Meika Freeman is an associate in the Labor & Employment Law Department. She assists clients in a wide range of matters, including employment discrimination and labor-management relations.

Prior to joining Proskauer, Meika graduated from the Georgetown University Law Center where she was an Executive Editor of the Georgetown Journal of International Law. While in law school, Meika was a judicial intern for the Honorable Marcy Friedman of the New York Supreme Court, Commercial Division.

Firm/Organization: Proskauer Rose LLP

Blogs: Labor Relations Update, Law and the Workplace, Proskauer Whistleblower Defense

Latest Articles

Law and the Workplace

Eighth Circuit Holds Law Firm Partner Not “Employee” Covered by ADEA

By Evandro Gigante & Meika Freeman

December 4, 2019

On December 3, 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed the decision of the District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri holding that a former equity partner at a law firm was not an “employee” covered by the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (“ADEA”). Joseph S. von Kaenel was an equity partner at the law firm of Armstrong Teasdale LLP. At issue in this case was the firm’s partnership agreement,…

Labor Relations Update

NLRB Announces Three Proposed Rulemaking Amendments Aimed at Overhauling Union Election Procedures – With More to Come!

By Mark Theodore, Joshua Fox & Meika Freeman

August 13, 2019

The National Labor Relations Board published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) on Monday, August 12, 2019, proposing three amendments to its current rules and regulations aimed at addressing representation election procedures – with potentially more to come. The NLRB made sweeping changes to the election procedures through rulemaking in 2014, which have been criticized as shortening the time between the filing of a petition and the election and thus not allowing ample time…

Labor Relations Update

Another Obama-Board Decision Overturned: NLRB Reverts to Traditional Common-Law Agency Independent-Contractor Test and Foreshadows Potential Rulemaking

By Joshua Fox, Meika Freeman & Michael Lebowich

January 29, 2019

On January 25, 2019, in a long-anticipated decision, the NLRB overturned another Obama-Board decision, FedEx Home Delivery, 361 NLRB 610 (2014), which modified the test for whether an individual is an “employee” or an independent contractor under the NLRA (read about that decision here). The Board, in a 3-1 decision (Chairman Ring and Members Kaplan and Emanuel joined the majority; Member McFerran dissented), rejected the standard established in 2014 that limited the import…

Law and the Workplace

New York City Council Passes the Stop Sexual Harassment in NYC Act

By Evandro Gigante, Laura Fant & Meika Freeman

April 17, 2018

The New York City Council has passed the Stop Sexual Harassment in NYC Act (the “Act”), a package of bills aimed at addressing and preventing sexual harassment in the workplace. The legislation is now awaiting the signature of Mayor Bill de Blasio. As we previously discussed in an earlier post, the Act would amend the New York City Human Rights Law (“NYCHRL”) and the New York City Charter. While the Act as passed by the Council largely…

Law and the Workplace

NYC Council to Consider Series of Bills Aimed at Addressing Workplace Sexual Harassment

By Evandro Gigante, Laura Fant & Meika Freeman

March 6, 2018

The New York City Council will consider a series of bills aimed at preventing and addressing workplace sexual harassment, both in the private sector and in city agencies. The eleven bills, collectively titled the Stop Sexual Harassment in NYC Act, were jointly introduced by the Council Committee on Women and the Committee on Civil and Human Rights on February 28, 2018. Among the eleven bills, several apply to private employers in the City and would…

Proskauer Whistleblower Defense

U.S. Supreme Court Holds That Anti-Retaliation Provisions of Dodd-Frank Apply Only to Whistleblowers Who Report to the SEC

By Lloyd B. Chinn & Meika Freeman

February 23, 2018

On February 21, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that an individual is not covered by the anti-retaliation provision of the Dodd-Frank Act unless they have provided information regarding a violation of law to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Digital Realty Trust, Inc. v. Somers, No. 10-1276, 583 U.S. ___ (2018). Somers was a Vice President of Digital Realty, a real estate investment trust, who filed suit alleging a claim of whistleblower retaliation…

Meika Freeman

Eighth Circuit Holds Law Firm Partner Not “Employee” Covered by ADEA

NLRB Announces Three Proposed Rulemaking Amendments Aimed at Overhauling Union Election Procedures – With More to Come!

Another Obama-Board Decision Overturned: NLRB Reverts to Traditional Common-Law Agency Independent-Contractor Test and Foreshadows Potential Rulemaking

New York City Council Passes the Stop Sexual Harassment in NYC Act

NYC Council to Consider Series of Bills Aimed at Addressing Workplace Sexual Harassment

U.S. Supreme Court Holds That Anti-Retaliation Provisions of Dodd-Frank Apply Only to Whistleblowers Who Report to the SEC

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