August 14, 2024
A West Palm Beach, Florida, law firm has asked a federal judge to dismiss a former paralegal's wage and retaliation suit, arguing her independent contractor status and failure to report unpaid work make her claims unviable.
February 01, 2024
A paralegal can proceed with her wage and retaliation claims against the criminal defense law firm she worked at, but her collective allegations can't stand after a Florida district judge kept a magistrate judge's recommendations to deny the firm's bid to toss the suit.
January 08, 2024
A federal magistrate judge has recommended that a Florida paralegal's wage theft suit against her former employer, Blue Line Law Firm, be allowed to proceed, while suggesting that the collective action portion of her claim be struck down.
December 14, 2023
A former paralegal for Florida's Blue Line Law Firm has urged a federal judge to keep her wage theft suit against the firm alive, telling the court her former employer's dismissal bid raises evidence not yet ripe for review.
July 21, 2023
A paralegal suing her former law firm for shorting her on pay urged a Florida federal judge to disregard a sanctions bid from the firm, arguing its "premature, unsupported and unfounded" motion had jumped the gun by wading into factual disputes before discovery begins.
June 23, 2023
A Florida law firm facing allegations from a paralegal that it shorted her on pay and then slashed her hours when she complained has urged a federal judge to sanction the former employee, saying she knows her claims aren't defensible in court.
April 14, 2023
A criminal defense law firm urged a Florida federal court to toss a paralegal's suit claiming unpaid work during lunch breaks and retaliation, saying she was an independent contractor and therefore not covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act.
October 11, 2022
A Florida paralegal accused a criminal defense law firm of illegally underpaying workers and cutting her hours in half in retaliation for her complaints about the practice.