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• Restaurant operators and their former counsel were ordered to pay $7,020 for missing court conferences and failing to comply with discovery orders.
• Plaintiff Ozcan Aktas claims he worked 105 hours and was paid $700 each week as a cook at Fig and Lily Garden.
• Ex-defense attorney Christopher Karounos was ordered to pay half the sanction personally.

A federal judge in Newark, New Jersey, imposed a $7,020 sanction on an attorney and the lawyer’s former clients in a wage-and-hour suit for failure to provide discovery.

Elmwood Park, New Jersey, attorney Christopher Karounos and the operators of a Morristown, New Jersey, restaurant called Fig and Lily Garden must each pay half of the sanction for noncompliance with discovery orders and repeated failures to attend court conferences, U.S. Magistrate Judge Andre Espinosa said.

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