Frances K. Browne

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Teaching

• Employment Law Drafting, Fordham University School of Law, 2020-present 
• First-Year Legal Writing, Fordham University School of Law, 1993-2020
• Constitutional Law, Rutgers University

Experience

• Partner, Brody & Browne LLP
• Partner, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP
• Partner, Torys LLP
• Partner, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Education

• Rutgers University, MA 1995 summa cum laude 
• University of Pennsylvania, JD 1988 cum laude 
• Lehigh University, BA 1985 summa cum laude
       Phi Beta Kappa

Publications

• “Employers’ Options under Employment Agreements in Light of COVID-19,” New York Law Journal (May 2020)
• "New Year, New Employer Obligations," New York Law Journal (January 2020)
• ​“Mandatory Arbitration of Sexual Harassment Claim and FAA Preemption,” New York Law Journal (August 2019)
• “Second Circuit Adopts Negligence-Based ‘Cat’s Paw’ Doctrine,” New York Law Journal (October 2016) 
• "Library of New York Employment Law Forms," New York:  New York Law Journal Press (2014)
• "The Cat's Paw Doctrine in the Second Circuit," New York Law Journal (June 2012) & Employment Law Strategist (September 2012)
• “Hiring and Firing,” New York: Law Journal Press (2009)
• “Expert Witnesses:  The Right Time?”  New York Law Journal, Special Litigation Section (June 2006)
• “Punitive Damage Awards in New York Since ‘State Farm,'” New York Law Journal (December 2005)
• “A Revival of Summary Judgment for Employers,” The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel (November 2005)
• “Hello is Everyone There?”  New York Law Journal (March 2005)
• “Negotiating and Drafting Contract Boilerplate,” New York: American Lawyer Media (2003) (associate editor and chapter author)

Affiliations

Admitted

• New York and New Jersey State Bars
• U.S. Supreme Court
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• U.S. District Courts, SDNY, EDNY, NDNY, DNJ

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