This highly qualified attorney has practiced employment and labor law for 40+ years. Currently he is the President, a practicing attorney, and mediator at a global employment law and HR consulting firm. He has extensive experience with a variety of employment law matters including wrongful termination, wage and hour, class actions, breach of contract, discrimination, retaliation, workplace investigations and more. This expert has authored a number of articles in ...
This expert has over 30 years of combined experience as a Human Resource executive and employment attorney. She is the co-founder and principal consultant of her own human resource consulting practice. She has conducted and/or supervised hundreds of investigations as both an in-house investigator and an outside consultant, written numerous policies and practices manuals, mediated disputes and conducted a wide variety of seminars including sexual harassment training and ...
This expert has 26 years of experience in regulatory and compliance investigation of federal labor laws. An extensive amount of time was with the US Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division as a Wage and Hour Compliance Specialist, enforcing federal wage and hour laws through investigative assignments. She analyzed and reviewed employer's financial documents, including time and pay records, as well as provided technical and non-technical assistance to employers so ...
This highly qualified attorney has extensive experience in the field of employment law. He was formerly in practice as a labor and employment attorney, where he frequently handled cases discussing discriminatory violations under Title VII. He regularly represented employers charged with Title VII violations before the human relations commissions, and on occasion represented the charging parties in similar cases. When he stopped practicing labor and employment law, this ...
As founder and president of a well-established human resources consultancy firm, this expert has more than 28 years of experience in human resources and general management. Among his professional credits in human resource management are the establishment of comprehensive HR departments where none previously existed; the design and installation of base and incentive compensation systems and benefits plans; the development of affirmative action plans; the development of ...
This expert is a shareholder with a major law firm. He focuses his practice on complex labor issues, with a special focus on union matters, contract negotiations, unfair labor practice litigation, National Labor Relations Board practice, organizing attempts by unions, mass picketing and violence, secondary boycotts and pressure, and Federal and State OSHA matters.
He is a member of the College of Labor & Employment Lawyers and annually has been selected as one of ...
This expert is an empirical economist and law professor with testifying experience. His research interests revolve around employment law; the dynamics of civil litigation, particularly settlement; criminal law; and sentencing law and reform. He earned his JD, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he was the treasurer and an editor of the Harvard Law Review; he went on to earn a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology....
This highly qualified expert has extensive experience in litigation matters concerning employment issues. She has testified in at least 5 cases that went to a jury. She received a B.A. in Economics from Boston College summa cum laude and a J.D. from Suffolk University Law School cum laude and was on the Law Review. Her experience as a litigator makes her a specialist in the workplace environment, and she has authored and lectured on various topics including sexual ...
This expert has 40 years of experience as a wage and hour specialist. She worked for the US Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division for more than three decades, gaining extensive experience achieving compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act, including white collar exemptions, regular rate in overtime computations, reconstructing hours of work, and child labor. She also has extensive experience in federal prevailing wage statutes, such as Davis Bacon, Service ...
This expert has more than 16 years of experience conducting job analyses to address employment law compliance issues. She gained her BA in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and her MS in organizational development at the University of San Francisco. Currently, she is a Director in the Labor and Employment Practice at Berkeley Research Group. She was formerly an organizational consultant at The Empower Group and Right Management as well as the vice ...
This highly qualified expert has a BS from the University of Illinois, a MPA from Governors State University, and a PhD from Walden University (residency performed at Indiana University). Dr. Henson is an independent drug and alcohol testing consultant, providing drug and alcohol testing evaluations, research, and expert testimony. He has been qualified as an expert in field sobriety testing, drug and alcohol testing, physiology, and pharmacology in criminal, civil, and ...
Amazon recently entered a settlement agreement with the Federal Trade Commission to resolve claims of improper driver compensation. Under the terms of the agreement, Amazon will pay nearly $62 million to settle charges that it failed to pay its Amazon…
As the pandemic’s barrage of extenuating circumstances has disrupted plans of all kinds, breaches of contract have become common disputes. But among the allegations of nonperformance stemming from business partnerships, events, or goods and services, a few more unusual claims…
On Election Day 2020, California voters approved one of the most expensive ballot measures in the state’s history, Proposition 22. The measure was both created and heavily campaigned for by Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash. With the passing of Proposition 22,…
Court: United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Weiss v. Macy’s Retail Holdings, Inc. Citation: 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 200855 Facts The plaintiff was an employee at a Macy’s retail store from…
Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Southern Division Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Sommers-Wilson v. Samsung SDI Am., Inc. Citation: 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 177437 Facts In this case, the plaintiff brought claims of gender discrimination…
Court: United States District Court for the District of Maryland Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Balbed v. Eden Park Guest House, LLC Citation: 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 132738 Facts The plaintiff filed a motion against the defendant alleging that she had…
Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Antekeier v. Lab. Corp. of Am. Citation: 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 158130 In this wrongful termination case, the plaintiff retained a vocational rehabilitation…
This case involves a claim of employment discrimination against the executive leadership in a particular division of a top bank. A female plaintiff who had been working for the bank for more than 16 years was allegedly compensated 20% less than her male counterpart in…
This case involves complaints from various employees of a publicly traded company regarding their employer’s revenue recognition practices. It was alleged that the employer was recognizing revenue from high-tech and other specialized systems before their installation when the employer was…
This case involves an ongoing dispute between an employee and her direct supervisor. The employee had been her supervisor’s subordinate for 6 years and the two had developed a contentious working relationship. The supervisor secretly requested that an entry-level IT worker begin…
This case involves a wrong termination dispute at a large bank. The employee in question was granted 12 weeks of maternity leave at the end of the calendar year. In her absence, the company hired someone to perform her job in…
Two hospital nurses acting as whistleblowers decided to sue their previous employer in Kansas after they reported on a coworker’s allegedly unethical practices. When the two nurses came forward to their employer, a large hospital, and discussed a resident doctor’s habit…