The saga continues…
The law firm of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP has recently fired another salvo in its bid to defeat the class and collective action filed against…
Continue Reading Lawyer FLSA Overtime Cases Proceeding Through the Pipeline
I told you so!
A federal judge dismissed the putative collective action against the huge law firm, Skadden Arps, which was filed by a lawyer claiming he was working as…
Continue Reading Attorney Overtime Lawsuit Dismissed Under FLSA Professional Exemption
I have noticed that there are not many lawsuits (e.g. class actions) brought that test the limits of the professional exemption. That exemption, geared towards anyone with an advanced degree…
A federal judge has dismissed a FLSA class action lawsuit where the theory was the group of employees was improperly classified as exempt. There were more than one thousand current…
Continue Reading Professional Exemption Defense Dooms Large FLSA Collective Action Against KPMG
The health care industry seems to draw more than its fair share of class action lawsuits. In another example of this trend, home-health workers have filed a FLSA class action…
Continue Reading Nationwide Nursing Home Chain Hit With FLSA Collective Action That Targets The Nature of The “Fee Basis” Of Payment
In a recent case, a federal judge in New York has allowed a class action to proceed for thousands of employees who allege that they were misclassified as exempt by…
Continue Reading Employer Defenses Against Class Action Rest (Again) On Individualization, As Well As Exemption
I have been representing an employer in a class action in which Registered Nurses, paid hourly, sought overtime. We won on summary judgment at the trial court, on the strength…
Continue Reading The Offensive Use Of DOL Opinion Letters In Overtime (And Other) Wage-Hour Class Actions
Last week, a California appeals court ruled that a former law clerk who had graduated from law school but not yet passed the bar, was exempt from overtime pay as…
Continue Reading Unlicensed Law Clerks Found to Be Exempt Employees
Earlier this month, a writer for the legal blog FindLaw, filed a class action lawsuit alleging that Thomson Reuters Corp. and Adecco failed to pay writers for overtime and…
Continue Reading Are Writers Exempt From Overtime? What Would Hemingway Think?
Although Blackwater, the “infamous” company that has played a role in the occupation of Iraq, has changed its name to Xe Services LLC, that cannot change the seemingly continuing stream…
Continue Reading Another Blackwater FLSA Class Action Lawsuit
