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Contract Attorneys Unpaid Overtime

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Document Review Attorneys May Not Be Exempt From OT, Court Says

Large law firms and legal services vendors often hire stables of contract lawyers to do document review in big cases. Sometimes, the lawyers who do the review are actually reading and analyzing the documents in light of the...more

Orrick - Employment Law and Litigation

It Might be Mechanical, But It’s Exempt: Court Dismisses Temp Document Reviewing Attorneys’ Overtime Collective Action

A district court in New York dismissed the putative collective action filed by a contract attorney who performed document review for Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom LLP (“Skadden”) for fifteen months. See Lola v....more

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