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Labor/Employment,
Class Action

Nov. 14, 2022

Complex court judges offer tips of wage and hour actions

“My calendar is 90% wage and hour, and what I try and do in all of my cases, if I even smell a discovery dispute,” Sacramento County Judge Jill H. Talley said, “I’m going to be making you appear before me at the case management conference and I’m going to try and insert myself in your meet and confer process and then I’m going to make you go to have an informal discovery conference with me, and I’ve been really successful with that.”

Complex courts across the state are being inundated with wage and hour class actions, judges agreed at the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s Complex Bar Symposium, offering tips to attorneys on how to get their motions heard and settlements approved.

“By far the largest volume of our cases are the class cases, and by far the largest volume of those are the wage and hour class cases,” Judge Brad Seligman of Alameda County told the gather...

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