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Attorneys bringing suit face personal and professional repercussions—not to mention an uncomfortable workplace—but nonetheless feel litigation has a purpose.

Most Big Law partners would probably hesitate to file a lawsuit or pursue a dispute in arbitration against their firms. After all, it’s likely to present that lawyer with in an unenviable choice: continuing to work alongside fellow partners as the legal claim remains active, or attempting to move elsewhere with the hope that the suit doesn’t stain future job prospects.

For those reasons and others, litigating a dispute against one’s...

The Communications Workers of America and a group of workers on Monday restyled a suit alleging a proposed class of employers, including Amazon.com Inc. and T-Mobile, illegally blocked a proposed nationwide class of older workers from seeing Facebook job ads, adding language meant to ward off the companies’ bids to escape the suit.

The union added a California plaintiff and detail to their allegations that the companies used Facebook Inc. as their agent to target younger job applicants in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, tacking 18 pages onto an already sprawling amended...

After working at a call center for two decades, Linda Bradley's job came to an end about a year and a half ago. Since her layoff, she's combed online job sites every day looking for work — without much luck.

Bradley, who is 45 and lives near Columbus, Ohio, began suspecting age discrimination after someone at her union mentioned how recruiters often target online ads at younger candidates. "I thought to myself, 'Oh, that's why I wasn't seeing some of the ads that my daughter has seen on her Facebook,' " she says.

Her daughter, who is 26, got hired right away. Bradley eventually took the only...

Workers’ lawyers are uniting around arbitration as the new reality, following a recent Supreme Court decision that upended the business model for suing employers.

The justices ruled in May that companies may require workers to sign arbitration agreements waiving their rights to file a class or collective action. The decision, in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, is widely recognized as a major victory for employers. They now have the high court’s blessing to shield themselves from costly and sometimes embarrassing class actions.

Several big plaintiffs’ firms are fighting back by filing hundreds of...

Businesses in the Golden State are bracing for an uptick in wage-and-hour suits following the California Supreme Court's recent ruling that a federal doctrine blocking workers from suing over brief periods of unpaid time didn't doom a proposed class action against Starbucks Corp., but a key question still lingering after the ballyhooed decision means a flood of successful class actions is far from inevitable.

Attorneys for workers have praised the court's partial rejection of the de minimis doctrine, saying it paves the way for suits bringing wage-skimmers to justice. Meanwhile, some advisers...

A New York federal judge on Tuesday rejected Wells Fargo Advisors LLC’s challenge to an arbitrator’s decision letting workers pursue class arbitration of their unpaid overtime claims, calling the company out for trying to escape the same binding proceedings it imposes on its employees.

U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni refused to vacate an arbitrator’s findings that language in two workers’ contracts with Wells Fargo lets them bring their claims on behalf of a class, saying the decision doesn’t fit into the narrow range of circumstances that open arbitration rulings up to court review.

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Amy F. Shulman, whose practice has covered a wide range of labor and employment law litigation and transactional matters, has joined Outten & Golden LLP's New York office as Counsel, the firm said today.

Ms. Shulman, who has joined Outten & Golden's Individual Practice Area, has negotiated employment-related agreements for executives and professionals, counseled individuals in employment and other workplace disputes, and litigated whistleblower, discrimination, retaliation, contract, workplace tort, and wage-and-hour actions. She also has represented private and public-sector unions in...

Outten & Golden partner Jahan Sagafi has been recognized one of the Top Labor & Employment Lawyers in California by the Daily Journal in California.  The annual award is given to 75 California-based attorneys for their contributions to the law and the community. Daily Journal’s list draws from plaintiffs’, defense, government, and nonprofit lawyers.  Mr. Sagafi was included for the third year in a row.

The Daily Journal highlighted Mr. Sagafi’s work on del Toro Lopez v Uber Technologies, where he recently won a $10 million settlement with ride-hailing giant Uber Technologies Inc. This past...

In a nascent trend that could impact a range of class actions in the employment, securities, consumer protection and product liability spheres, some diligent judges are beginning to track settlements after granting final approval — adding a so-called third phase of review to ensure class members get the relief they are due.

One recent example is U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria’s work overseeing Wells Fargo’s $142 million settlement with an estimated 3.5 million customers who were charged fees for accounts they never authorized. During a case management conference in March, after the...