While the sluggish economy has slowed casework for many local law practices, employment attorneys handling wage and hour cases have seen a dramatic uptick in the last year as employers looking to cut costs have sometimes cut corners. Carle Place-based Leeds Morelli and Brown is typical: Wage and hour cases have doubled in the past year, to more than 100, according to managing partner Jeffrey Brown. Brown said most of these cases end in settlements, but of those that go before a judge, roughly 90 percent result in victories for the plaintiffs.
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As we begin the new year, employers and law experts may wonder what is in store for employment law in 2011. One of the biggest agents of change is the highest court in the land - the U.S. Supreme Court. This year, the court will decide a full docket of employment law cases, including some monumental ones that could have a drastic impact on the workplace. At least four cases will arise from the typically employee- friendly U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which encompasses the federal districts of Oregon, Washington, California and six other western states.
When Missouri employment law cases started to shift from federal to state courts in the early 2000s, Jerome Dobson and his firm saw an opportunity to help shape caselaw in a largely untested arena. Last year, Dobson scored two major victories for fired workers, in a pair of cases that the Missouri Supreme Court decided on the same day: Fleshner v. Pepose Vision Institute and Keveney v. Missouri Military Academy.
National employment law firm Seyfarth Shaw recently released its annual survey of employment law cases, summarizing key trends in the field from U.S. Supreme Court decisions to state and federal court decisions and regulatory actions. The 790-page 8th edition of the Workplace Class Action Litigation Report covers almost 1,000 rulings and settlements, highlighting the impact of the Court's notable decisions in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion and Wal-Mart v. Dukes. Concepcion has already been cited 215 times while Dukes has been cited more than 260 times in both federal and state court opinions since it was handed down last June, the survey notes.
... BEFORE ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGES IN CASES INVOLVING ALLEGATIONS OF UNLAWFUL EMPLOYMENT OF AL...
... BEFORE ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGES IN CASES INVOLVING ALLEGATIONS OF UNLAWFUL EMPLOYMENT OF AL...
Each year we find a few employment cases that go beyond interesting. Colleagues of mine often send me copies of cases with the comment: Only in employment law. Here are three from 2004 that caught our attention. Cloutier vs. Costco Wholesale Corp., No. 04-1475 (1st Cir. 2004).
We look for people who perhaps have been New York lawyers but who live in New Jersey," he said. "They're either getting out of the rat race or they're being asked to get out of the rat race. Reinhard said his firm remains prepared to bring on both associates and lateral hires in its most consistent and fastest-growing practice areas, as employment-law cases and construction litigation have caused the firm to add attorneys, he said. While Lindabury has weathered the recession with few changes, Harrison has followed changes at New York-based firms with interest Reading headlines about larger law firms cutting back over the past year, Harrison saw issues being raised that were discussed while he was studying for an MBA in law office management at Stony Brook University.
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