Civil Litigation
Sep. 18, 2019
Out of the frying pan: defendants leap into the fire with their relentless push toward individual arbitrations
Since at least 2011, when the U.S. Supreme Court decided AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion, seeking to reinvent the 1925 Federal Arbitration Act as a get-out-of-jail-free card for corporations, nearly every wage and hour class action faces a question whether defendants will seek to compel the plaintiffs, class members, and FLSA opt-ins to individual arbitration.
Bryan J. Schwartz
Principal
Bryan Schwartz Law PC
Phone: (510) 444-9300
Email: bryan@bryanschwartzlaw.com
UC Berkeley SOL Boalt Hall; Berkeley CA
Bryan represents workers in wage-and-hour, discrimination, whistleblower, qui tam, and other class, collective, representative, and individual actions. He has been named one of the state's top labor and employment lawyers by the Daily Journal every year since 2015.
Since at least 2011, when the U.S. Supreme Court decided AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion, 563 U.S. 333 (2011), seeking to reinvent the 1925 Federal Arbitration Act as a get-out-of-jail-free card for corporations, nearly every wage and hour class action faces a question whether defendants will seek to compel the plaintiffs, class members, and federal Fair La...
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