Class and Collective Actions

Class and Collective Actions Practice Group Leadership

    Adam T. Klein       Justin M. Swartz      Rachel Bien

Outten & Golden’s class action and impact litigation practice has consistently sought to curb systemic employer abuses of workers, ranging from economic exploitation to gender- and race-based discrimination.

O & G’s class action team prosecutes cases involving:

• Wage and Hour Violations:
  • Off-the-clock practices (not paying workers for all time worked)
  • Overtime avoidance by misclassifying employees
  
  
• Employment Discrimination:
  • Promotion and compensation claims based on gender or race, including glass ceilings and sticky floors
    
  • Account assignment/business allocation discrimination based on gender in the financial services industry
  • Hiring discrimination based on credit history

Class and Collective Actions - Articles of Interest

Best Practices in Complex Employment Litigation: Contacting Employees (134KB - PDF)
by Adam T. Klein, Tarik F. Ajami and Mark R. Humowiecki
Outten & Golden LLP

Complex Wage Litigation - Use of Statistical Evidence (132KB - PDF)
by Adam T. Klein and Tarik F. Ajami
Outten & Golden LLP

Eight-Minute Electronic Discovery (65KB - PDF)
by Adam T. Klein, Esq., Tarik F. Ajami, Esq., Douglas C. James, Esq. and Rachel Wilhelm
Outten & Golden LLP

The Fair Labor Standards Act - Settlements 101 (102KB - PDF)
by Adam T. Klein, Mark R. Humowiecki and Tarik F. Ajami
Outten & Golden LLP

Retaliatory Counterclaims: Turning the Tables on the Overly Aggressive Defendant (64KB - PDF)
by Tarik F. Ajami, Esq., Justin M. Swartz, Esq. and Mark R. Humowiecki, Esq.
Outten & Golden LLP

Use of ADR Procedures to Resolve Complex Employment Discrimination
Litigation From a Plaintiffs’ Perspective: No Thanks. (128KB - PDF)
by Adam T. Klein, Tarik F. Ajami and Mark R. Humowiecki
Outten & Golden LLP

When Outsourcing Cheats Workers (42KB - PDF)
by Adam T. Klein, Esq. and Mark R. Humowiecki, Esq.
Outten & Golden LLP

Employer Credit-History Checks and Criminal Record
Checks of Job Applicants for Hiring Decisions: The Illegality under Title VII Disparate Impact Doctrine (77KB - PDF)
by Adam T. Klein, ReNika Moore, Scott A. Moss
Outten & Golden LLP

Off-The-Clock Claims From The Employee’s Perspective (185KB - PDF)
by Adam T. Klein, Sean Farhang
Outten & Golden LLP

Whose Clients Are They? Contacting Putative Class Members (105KB - PDF)
by Cara Greene and Jill Maxwell
ABA-LEL Newsletter Spring 2007

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