A court recently authorized a lawsuit alleging that certain workers who built Washington, D.C.'s new soccer stadium were underpaid to go forward as a collective action. The Kaplan Law Firm and the Handley Farah & Anderson Law Firm represent Plaintiffs…
Hace poco, un tribunal autorizó que se presentara una demanda como acción colectiva, por medio de la cual se alega que algunos trabajadores que trabajaron en la construcción del nuevo estadio de fútbol de D.C. recibieron pago insuficiente. Los demandantes…
The Kaplan Law Firm regularly represents employees who have not been paid wages they were owed by their employers or who have not been paid at the legally required overtime rate for overtime work. The Firm recently filed four lawsuits…
On Friday I was a panelist on a discussion of a successful unpaid wages case I brought on behalf of individuals who had worked as electricians and assistant electricians on construction projects in the Washington, D.C. area. The event, the…
March is turning out to be a busy month for appellate matters. The Kaplan Law Firm will have oral arguments in three separate appellate cases, all of which raise important issues of law. On March 21 we have an oral…
Opposing counsel in the Villa v. CavaMezze Grill case has filed their brief in opposition to our appeal in this Title VII case, which is currently pending in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, and I have filed The Kaplan…
The case I mentioned in my June 30 post, Villa v. Cavamezze Grill LLC, is moving forward. The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers’ Association (MWELA) have filed Amicus briefs supporting my clients’ position.…
I recently filed a brief with the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals on behalf of my client, who was fired from her job as a first line manager at a District of Columbia area restaurant chain for telling top company…
I currently represent the former senior official the Alexandria (Virginia) City Public Schools (“ACPS”) in an employment law lawsuit against ACPS. The lawsuit alleges that my client was discriminated against based on his race and national origin and that he…