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Seyfarth's annual Workplace Class Action Report was featured in "Wage and Hour Class Action Boom Called Likely to Last," a January 20 story by Bloomberg BNA.

With this final video blog posting, we conclude our series of presentations by WCAR author Jerry Maatman on workplace class action litigation developments.

Seyfarth's Workplace Class Action Report was featured in a January 14 story from The Global Legal Post, "The billion dollar plus rise and fall of employment litigation

The Report's author Gerald Maatman said that the top 10 settlements in employment-related categories totaled a record high of $2.72 billion—nearly $1 billion more than 2016.

My colleague David Barmak, was quoted in a SHRM article entitled, Justices Question Whether EEOC Should Pay $4.7M in Attorney Fees.

The Court determined that the subrogation provision was contained within a document that served as the summary plan description as well as the plan document.

In an agreement between the parties dated December 16, 2009, the Postal Service agreed not to pursue criminal charges and Green agreed to retire.

The Eleventh Circuit held that a sub-assignee's claim for payment of a chiropractor's bills against Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida were within the scope of ERISA...

Last Friday, the US Supreme Court agreed to hear cases from the 9th, 7th, and 5th Circuits in which the courts are split on the issue whether class action waivers in employee arbitration...

The article focuses on recent judicial defeats of the EEOC and their potential implications for employers who seek to challenge the EEOC’s approach.

For our sibling blog ADR: Advice from the Trenches, my colleagues Kate Beattie and Don Davis have authored an analysis of employee class action waivers...

On Thursday, January 22, 2015, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) appealed the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia's two orders that vacated both major provisions of the DOL's Home Care Rule.

In the past three weeks, almost one hundred lawsuits have been filed on behalf of blind and vision-impaired individuals claiming both restaurants...

With courts still backed up from COVID shutdowns, mediation is a popular option to resolve litigation. Mediation is a process where parties to a dispute hire a neutral third party to...

Plaintiffs claimed they spent from 50 to 95 percent of their time performing nonexempt duties.

Remember NBC's The Office? I think some lawyers used to blog about it. Anyhow, one of my favorite episodes was "Costume Contest" where the Scranton employees threw a Halloween party at the branch office.

In a recent decision that could have broad effects on employment arbitration, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that parties cannot be compelled to submit to class arbitration absent a specific agreement to do so.