St. Louis Metropolitan Police shot a 16-year-old boy more than a dozen times outside a north city gas station last fall. First reported by the St. Louis Post Dispatch, a newly-released autopsy rep...

Employment Law Firm DLaw Acquires Kevin T. Barnes' Group To ...StreetInsider.

A federal court has determined that an auto parts distributor and an Arizona logistics firm are joint employers that owe $5.6 million in back wages and liquidated damages for misclassifying nearly...

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In a watershed development for California's working class, employee rights firm DLaw has acquired industry-leading attorney Kevin T. Barnes' law offices a...

Lawsuit and notice filings under California's Private Attorneys General Act dropped in 2022 as courts paused cases pending a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Viking River Cruises v. Moriana and a... To...

Half of the court cases that we report on below from last month involve legal proceedings related to the sports industry: golf caddies, tennis pros, and sports editors. Misclassification within the...

Employers are living in a world where business and workplace operations are increasingly becoming more technology driven and data intensive. From a workplace perspective, employers are more heavil...

AMHERST — Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and his partners are auctioning a non-fungible token, or NFT, Thursday. The money goes to the UMass Amherst Ellsberg Initiative for Peace an...

On January 10, 2023, the Illinois legislature passed the Paid Leave for All Workers (PLFAW) Act, making Illinois just the third state in the country (after Maine and Nevada) to require private emp...

Imagine this scenario: You pay an employee a substantial daily rate — which works out to more than $200,000 a year. Still, the employee claims they’re entitled to overtime pay because they were pa...