Mardi & Joan

Congratulations to Joan and Mardi on their wedding at Adelphi Friends Meeting.

Welcome

Tate & Renner is a private law office now based in Silver Spring, Maryland. Established in 1995 by Al Tate and Richard Renner, we advanced social justice through the practice of civil law. We handle employment matters, especially on behalf of whistleblowers. We also handle consumer, landlord-tenant, domestic violence, immigration and wage theft cases.

On this web page, you can see Richard's collection of his photography and his travels to Guatemala, Mexico and Puerto Rico. You can even play with our "clock" and subscribe to Richard's free weekly synopses of the NPR puzzle.

Click here to listen to Richard's experimental podcast about a visit to the American History museum. Click here for the links to subscribe to the experimental podcast.

For more information about Richard Renner, visit his résumé. It has links to his cases, accomplishments, and affiliations. Under "Articles," (above, on this page) you can read advice that we give to our clients about taming stress, buying a used car, defending yourself from professional debt collectors, what to do if the boss questions you, and how to meet the 30-day deadline for environmental whistleblower complaints.

Contact Richard Renner by email at rrenner@igc.org. Web design by Chris Renner. We welcome your comments.

What's New

  • Wrote amicus brief in Howe v. City of Akron for the National Employment Lawyers Association against a $97,056.18 sanction imposed on civil rights attorneys. We filed the brief on 2013-04-23 with the Sixth Circuit. The brief argues that the sanction is in error when counsel violated no law, rule or court order, and the submission of a new exhibit was good faith compliance with the court's own order.
  • Richard spoke to Friendship Place DC, presenting "Know Your Rights" for the Employment Justice Center, 2013-04-03.
  • Richard submitted comments to OSHA about their new Whistleblower Complaint form, 2013-03-18.
  • See photos of Alison and Erik Snyder's wedding, 2013-03-16.
  • We advocated for the Civil Rights Tax Relief Act (CRTRA) before Maryland House and Senate Committees with other members of the Maryland Employment Lawyers Associations, 2013-03-08.
  • Richard testified to a DC Council Oversight Hearing about how DC law could encourage attorneys to take more wage theft cases. 2013-03-04.
  • Submitted comments to Advisory Committee on Civil Rules, 2013-03-01, expressing concern that restrictions on discovery will disadvantage whistleblowers.
  • Erik Snyder and Richard Renner co-wrote an amicus brief in Day v. Department of Homeland Security on behalf of the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA), together with other attorneys. The brief, filed 2013-02-28, argued that the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) should apply Section 101 of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) to protected disclosures made before WPEA's effective date.
  • We marched on the White House to protest the Keystone XL Pipeline and to call for action to prevent climate change, 2013-02-17.
  • Submitted comments to U.S. Department of Labor on Rules of Practice and Procedure for Hearings Before the Office of Administrative Law Judges, 2013-02-04. Urged Department to express remedial purpose of whistleblower laws, reduce barriers to discovery and modernize electronic filing and discovery.