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Labor/Employment

Jan. 16, 2013

Plaintiffs' attorneys to receive $31 million in contingency employment lawsuit

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge John Shepard Wiley Jr. tentatively awarded plaintiffs' lawyers about $27 million in attorneys' fees Monday in a meal-and-rest case against Los Angeles-based ABM Security Services Inc.


By Laura Hautala


Daily Journal Staff Writer


A Los Angeles Superior Court judge tentatively awarded plaintiffs' lawyers about $31 million in attorneys' fees Monday in a meal-and-rest case against ABM Security Services Inc., a subsidiary of New York-based ABM Industries Inc.


The plaintiffs' attorneys, led by Drew A. Pomerance of Roxborough, Pomerance, Nye & Adreani LLP, took the case on a contingency fee basis in 2005. The plaint...

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