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Surveys of corporate counsel confirm that complex workplace litigation are one of the chief exposures driving corporate legal budgetary expenditures, as well as the type of legal dispute...
Surveys of corporate counsel confirm that complex workplace
litigation – and especially class actions and multi-plaintiff
lawsuits – are one of the chief exposures driving corporate
legal budgetary expenditures, as well as the type of legal dispute
that causes the most concern for their companies.
As profiled in our Workplace Class Action Report for 2017,
federal and state courts issued more favorable class certification
rulings for the plaintiffs' bar in 2016 than in past years. The
prime concern in that array of risks is now indisputably wage &
hour class action and collective action litigation.
In this video, the third in our continuing series
outlining the key findings of the Workplace Class Action Report, we
examine the story behind the class certification statistics and
what that means for employers.
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