Iris Halpern

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.

Colorado

Colorado Supreme Court

Since 2019

New York

New York State Office of Court Administration

ID Number: 4681607

Since 2009

Adjunct Professor of Law

University of Colorado-Boulder Law School

2020 - Current

Attorney

Rathod Mohamedbhai LLC

2018 - Current

Senior Trial Attorney / Acting Supervisory Attorney

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

2010 - 2017

Attorney

Legal Services of Central New York

2008 - 2009

University of California, Berkeley School of Law

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

One Colorado

Board Member and C4 Chair

Current

Colorado Wage Theft Task Force

Executive Committee Member

Current

Col­orado Bar Asso­ci­a­tion Labor & Employ­ment Section

Member

Current

Col­orado Women’s Bar Association

Member

Current

Col­orado LGBT Bar Association

Member

Current

Col­orado Trial Lawyers Association

Member

Current

Lawyers’ Civil Rights Coalition

Member

Current

Col­orado Bar Asso­ci­a­tion Civil Rights Sec­tion

Member

2018 - 2019

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

LGBTQ Employ­ment Dis­crim­i­na­tion

2013

City and County of Den­ver

Employ­ment Dis­crim­i­na­tion Law and Human Traf­fick­ing, 7th Annual Human Traf­fick­ing Sym­po­sium

2014

Human Traf­fick­ing Task Force of South­ern Col­orado

Employ­ment Dis­crim­i­na­tion and Your Rights, Train­ing for Day Laborers

2016

El Cen­tro Human­i­tario

Employ­ment Dis­crim­i­na­tion, Citizens Academy

2016

Town of Vail Police Depart­ment Com­mu­nity Train­ing

Crim­i­nal Con­vic­tion His­tory and Employ­ment

2016

HIREDenver

Sex­ual His­tory Ques­tions Under FRE 412, PELA Brown Bag CLE (Feb­ru­ary 2017) Hot Top­ics in Employ­ment Law, EEOC Updates, Col­orado Bar Asso­ci­a­tion CLE (Decem­ber

December 2016

Colorado Bar Association

Investigation and Discovery in Sexual Assault and Harassment Cases, in Civil Justice for Victims of Sexual Harassment & Assault in the #MeToo Era

September 13, 2019

Colorado Trial Lawyers Association

Federal Employment Discrimination Laws (LGBTQ Employees and Title VII

October 15, 2019

Colorado LGBT Bar Association

Employment Discrimination Law: Supreme Court and Circuit Court Update, Civil Rights and Labor & Employment Sections

November 12, 2019

Colorado Bar Assocation