Bloomberg Law
July 23, 2015, 6:24 PM UTC

Appeals Court Revives Temp Attorney’s Overtime Lawsuit Against Skadden

Casey Sullivan

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has revived an overtime wages lawsuit filed by contract attorney David Lola against Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and legal staffing firm Tower Legal Services.

The ruling, issued Thursday and written by Judge Rosemary S. Pooler, sets the stage for Lola to proceed in the Southern District of New York.

Lola, a contract attorney in North Carolina, filed the complaint in July 2013, alleging that Skadden and Tower failed to pay him overtime wages when he worked for 15 months on multidistrict litigation in the Northern District of Ohio beginning in April 2012. U.S. District Judge ...

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