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Employment Law Institute 2026 – Day One – Philadelphia


  • City:The CLE Conference Center, Wanamaker Building, 10th Floor, Ste. 1010, Philadelphia, PA, 19107
  • Start Date:2026-04-21 08:30:00
  • End Date:2026-04-21 16:30:00
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  • Level:Intermediate
  • Topics:Employment

This program is eligible for 6 hours of CLE credit in 60-minute states. In 50-minute states, this program is eligible for 7.2 hours of CLE credit. Credit hours are estimated and are subject to each state’s approval and credit rounding rules.

Overview

Use this page to register for Day One Philadelphia of the Employment Institute 2026.
Use this link to register for Day Two Philadelphia ONLY.

32 years and better than ever!

Welcome to the 32nd Annual Employment Law Institute, where legal excellence meets professional connection! Join us for two power-packed days of insightful Continuing Legal Education (CLE) sessions and networking opportunities.

The City of Brotherly Love once again sets the scene for this engaging and impactful program.

A Meeting of the Minds...A Gathering of Friends 

The Employment Law Institute is the perfect opportunity to get a complete annual update on changes in the law impacting the workplace and concrete insights into why those changes matter. Hundreds of lawyers and human resources professionals typically attend the Institute to get a comprehensive, up-to-the-minute review of everything that is new and important in the field of employment and labor law, to network, and to have a great time. You’ll learn about the most recent legislation, rules and cases impacting every workplace. Earn a year's worth of CLE credit in two engaging days!

Sign up for both days and save! Customers attending both days of the institute will save $199 on the combined registration. The discount will be automatically applied in your cart when you add the second day.

PBA members receive a $50 discount on registration pricing. For details, click here and log in to receive your discount code.

Special thanks to our outstanding planning team:

- Christine E. Burke, Esq., Karpf Karpf & Cerutti PC

- Scott B. Goldshaw, Esq., Goldshaw Greenblatt Pierce LLC

- Victoria L. Gorokhovich, Esq., PSEG Services Corporation

- Jeffrey Pasek, Esq., Cozen O'Connor

- Amy L. Rosenberger, Esq., Willig Williams & Davidson

- Michael J. Torchia, Esq., Semanoff Ormsby Greenberg & Torchia, LLC

Co-sponsored by the PBA Labor & Employment Section. Not a member? Join today!

Faculty

Christine E. Burke, Esq.

Ms. Burke is a Partner with the Law Offices of Karpf, Karpf & Cerutti, P.C., a specialized employment discrimination firm, servicing Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. Ms. Burke has tried numerous federal jury trials to successful verdicts on the plaintiff’s side, and frequently litigates in federal courts throughout PA and NJ. Ms. Burke’s employment litigation background also includes appellate work, arguing before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, including one panel with retired Associate Supreme Court Justice, Sandra Day O’Connor, sitting by designation. Ms. Burke’s appellate work in the Third Circuit has resulted in successful reversals in both published and unpublished opinions. Prior to working with the firm, Ms. Burke previously held a prestigious judicial internship with the Honorable Carol Sandra Moore Wells, U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, as well as spent time with the Federal Defender’s Office for the District of Delaware. Ms. Burke served as the Executive Director (Southern New Jersey) for the Sidney Reitman Employment Law Inn of Court, and is a current member of the Philadelphia Bar Association, Labor Employment Law Committee. She regularly presents on employment related matters for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, and has presented for the Federal Bench Bar, NITA, NJSBA and NJICLE. Ms. Burke has been designated by Super Lawyers as a Rising Star, 2019-2020, as Super Lawyer 2022-2023. Ms. Burke is also an adjunct Faculty Professor for Rutgers School of Law-Camden where she teaches for their Trial Advocacy Program. 

Michael J. Torchia, Esq.

Mr. Torchia is a managing member of Semanoff Ormsby Greenberg, Torchia, LLC, and chairs the firm’s employment law and commercial litigation section. In addition to counseling his corporate clients on employment law topics, Mr. Torchia acts as Pennsylvania employment counsel for several large national corporations. He has successfully established a workplace investigations practice and is routinely hired by other law firms to serve as an independent third-party investigator of a variety of employment-related claims and as an expert witness in the area of workplace investigations. He lectures extensively on various employment law topics and continues to serve as course planner and moderator for many PBI seminars, including the annual Employment Law Institute (at which he has, and will again, co-present the annual “Year in Review” initial session). Mr. Torchia successfully defended Spierling v. First American Home Health Services, Inc., which has proved to be an important decision in Pennsylvania defining the public policy exception of at-will employment, and Socko v. Mid-Atlantic Systems of CPA, Inc., in which he argued in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court regarding the issue of consideration for noncompetition agreements for current employees. He has been named a Leader in the Law by Philadelphia Business Journal in both employment law and litigation and was selected as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer® by Philadelphia Magazine every year since 2008, as well as Philly Top 100® for three years now. Mr. Torchia is the former chair of the Montgomery Bar Association Employment and Labor Law Committee.

Scott B. Goldshaw, Esq.

Scott Goldshaw is the Managing Partner of Goldshaw Greenblatt Pierce LLC. Scott has been practicing employment law and litigation since 1996, representing employers and employees in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. Mr. Goldshaw is widely recognized as one of the area’s top employment attorneys. Scott’s practice encompasses practically every aspect of employment law, ranging from discrimination, retaliation, and harassment to wage payment, benefits, and non-competition agreements. Mr. Goldshaw routinely litigates in federal and state courts, handling all aspects of litigation through trial and on appeal. When not in court, Scott negotiates employment and severance contracts of all kinds, provides counseling on various employment-related issues, and has served as a private mediator and an arbitrator for employment claims. His practice includes providing pro bono legal services to not-for-profit organizations and indigent individuals. Mr. Goldshaw has been included in The Best Lawyers in America list, as published in U.S. News & World Report, every year since 2013, and was named its Lawyer of the Year for 2022 for Employment Law – Individuals in Philadelphia. He has been named as a Super Lawyer in Pennsylvania every year since 2012. Mr. Goldshaw is a frequent lecturer on employment-related topics. He is a longstanding member of the Planning Team for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s Employment Law Institute. Prior to joining our firm in 2025, Scott practiced employment law and litigation at Salmanson Goldshaw, P.C. from 2001 to 2025; worked in the employment litigation department of Willig, Williams & Davidson in Philadelphia from 2000 to 2001; and worked in the employment litigation department of Kaye Scholer LLP (now Arnold & Porter LLC) in New York from 1996 to 2000. He served as a law clerk in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas from 1995 to 1996. Scott received his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania cum laude in 1995 where he served on the Editorial Board of the Law Review. He was awarded Order of the Coif and the P. Pemberton Morris Prize for the top student in evidence, pleading and practice. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in 1992, graduating magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and with Highest Honors in Economics.

Amy L. Rosenberger, Esq.

Amy Rosenberger is a partner at Willig, Williams & Davidson. Since 1995, she has devoted her practice to representation of labor unions and individual employees. She works with a diverse list of unions representing workers in government service, K through 12 and higher education, transportation, health care, and more. She is a frequent speaker on a wide range of topics relating to labor and employment law, including programs presented by the American Bar Association, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions, the American Arbitration Association, the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board and Bureau of Mediation, among others. Her service to the profession has also included leadership roles in Philadelphia Chapter of the Labor and Employment Research Association, the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Labor & Employment Law Section, and the Union Lawyers Alliance of the AFL-CIO. In 2021, she was inducted as a fellow in the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, and in 2022 she was named Best Lawyers’ Lawyer of the Year in Philadelphia in the category for union-side labor lawyers. She is a graduate of Northeastern University School of Law.

Victoria L. Gorokhovich, Esq.

Victoria L. Gorokhovich is Managing Counsel – Labor & Employment at PSEG. In that role, Ms. Gorokhovich leads a team of in house attorneys responsible for all aspects of Labor, Employment and Benefits law. Immediately prior to joining PSEG in 2022, Ms. Gorokhovich was Senior Managing Counsel, Employment Law & Litigation, at Cigna Corporation. She has also been an associate at the law firms of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP and Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. Ms. Gorokhovich graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law, Order of the Coif, in 2004, and is admitted to the New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania State Bars.

Jeffrey I. Pasek, Esq.

Mr. Pasek is a member of Cozen O’Connor, working out of the firm’s offices in Philadelphia and New York, and past chair of the firm’s Labor and Employment practice group. He concentrates in representing management in all facets of labor and employment law and also represents senior executives in their employment matters. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1976 and received his B.A., magna cum laude, in 1973 from the University of Pittsburgh. He is active in the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry, where he serves as a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors. Mr. Pasek is called upon to lecture frequently to business groups and continuing legal education programs. He is widely published on a range of employment law issues, and his work has been translated in six languages. Mr. Pasek is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York, and has tried cases and argued appeals in the federal courts throughout the United States, including before the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Pasek is an elected Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and has twice been chosen by Best Lawyers in America as a Lawyer of the Year for his work as a litigator and representative of management in workforce issues. He served for six years as a public member of the Council on Education of the American Veterinary Medical Association, which accredits veterinary colleges worldwide for the US. Department of Education, and is currently the Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Marc Sanders Foundation, which supports excellence in academic philosophy and is committed to using philosophy to help the world approach larger personal and societal issues with the thoughtfulness, care, and rigor needed to drive understanding and change and to cultivate and preserve civil discourse, public dialogue, and a healthy democracy.


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