Matt Kaplan has been elected President of the Virginia Employment Lawyer's Association (VELA). VELA is Virginia's principal organization of attorneys who represent employees in employment-related matters and is the Virginia affiliate of the National Employment Lawyers Association. It promotes the…
Earlier this week a Richmond-based federal judge approved a proposed settlement of a complex case arising from allegations of systematic underpayment of overtime by three construction companies. The case, Rosales v. Capital Interior Contractors, Inc., alleged that, at numerous construction…
A federal court in Washington, D.C. has approved the settlement of a lawsuit that alleged that four construction companies (or their subcontractors) underpaid hundreds of employees. The employees participating in the case will receive over $340,000. The plaintiffs, who were…
The Kaplan Law Firm's Matt Kaplan was recently elected Vice President-President Elect of the Virginia Employment Lawyers Association ("VELA"). VELA is the Commonwealth of Virginia's principal association of employment attorneys who represent employees and it is the state affiliate of…
The Kaplan Law Firm, in conjunction with the Handley, Farah & Anderson Law Firm, on behalf of clients of both firms, has filed a lawsuit against Bozzuto Contractors, a major construction firm, alleging that that firm is liable for the…
The Kaplan Law Firm recently obtained a substantial judgment for unpaid overtime, unpaid wages and attorneys' fees against a popular Arlington, Virginia restaurant which failed to pay the firm's client the minimum wage and overtime. The defendants in the case,…
The Kaplan Law Firm recently prevailed in an unpaid overtime case brought under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. In addition to ordering payment of damages to the Firm's client, the court also approved a significant award of attorneys' fees.…
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…