Freelance Isn't Free Act: An Overview of Protection for Free Lancers in NYC

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Save the dateNovember 30, 202312:00 PM - 1:00 PM (UTC-05:00 EST)

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Organizer: Congresswoman Grace Meng, U.S. Small Business Administration, Queens Chamber of Commerce

Phone: +1 7188988500

Contact Person: Suzan King

Email: sking@queenschamber.org

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Join Attorney Kyle Carraro for a webinar on navigating New York City's "Freelance Isn't Free Act"

This webinar will cover:

Freelancer Defined
Pre-FIFA
So What's Improved Under the FIFA
Who Does This Affect

This webinar is made possible by a grant through US SBA and Congresswoman Grace Meng.

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https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84380428665

Speakers

Kyle Carraro

Outside Legal

Kyle Carraro

Outside Legal

https://www.outside-legal.com/

Kyle Carraro is a partner at Outside Legal Counsel LLP. Kyle serves as general counsel for a wide variety of businesses, with a specific focus on technology, medical start-ups, and freelancers. Kyle advises such businesses on all aspects of corporate law, from formation to dissolution, as well as both affirmative and defensive litigation when necessary. Kyle also heads up the firm’s trademarking practice and provides counsel and strategy on intellectual property protection for businesses and entrepreneurs.

In addition to his work with business entities, Kyle also works with individual employees negotiating and litigating employment-related claims as well as with Independent Contractors in the enforcement of their rights under Freelance Isn’t Free Act as part of a concerted effort to educate freelancers on the law and create meaningful enforcement of its provisions.

In compliment to his practice with Outside Legal Counsel LLP, Kyle provides one-to-one legal counseling sessions with constituents of New York City Council Members in the Bronx and Manhattan and serves as a mentee to recent law school graduates to help them prepare to take the New York State Bar Exam.

Prior to joining the firm, Kyle represented tenants in housing court and was part of a legal team that represented an indefinitely-detained prisoner at Bagram Airbase, Afghanistan. Before pivoting to becoming a lawyer, Kyle worked in the global commodities sector for both Citibank and Deutsche Bank, and spent time living abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Kyle is fluent in Spanish, plays soccer weekly, and is an avid chess player.

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Freelance Isn't Free Act: An Overview of Protection for Free Lancers in NYC

Webinar brought to you by SBA and Congresswoman Grace Meng

Kyle Carraro

Outside Legal

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