Labor/Employment
Jan. 11, 2014
Plaintiffs’ attorneys deluge defendants with arbitration cases
By amassing a large group of plaintiffs and class members ahead of time, plaintiffs' lawyers hope to inundate employers with individual claims for arbitration, driving up the amount of money and time spent on the proceedings.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
On a single day, Richard E. Donahoo and his colleagues demanded individual arbitration on behalf of 277 clients, all of whom had worked at 24 Hour Fitness USA Inc. The lawyers' attempt to get unpaid overtime for the nationwide group in a class action had failed, so they let fly reams of court filings as their next-best strategy.
It's a tack employment attorneys are taking more often in the wa...
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