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Back by popular demand, our Annual Workplace Class Action Litigation Report Webinar is on Tuesday, February 21, 2017. Click here to register and attend. It's free!
As we face a new year, Seyfarth is pleased to offer strategic guidance through our 13th Annual Workplace Class Action Litigation Report. Across all varieties of workplace litigation, class action dynamics increasingly have been shaped and influenced by recent rulings in the U.S. Supreme Court. This past year the Supreme Court issued several key decisions on complex employment litigation issues and accepted more cases for review that are posed for rulings this coming year. Some decisions may be viewed as hostile to the expansive use of Rule 23, while others are hospitable and strengthen the availability of class actions against employers.
For an interactive analysis of 2016 decisions and emerging trends, please join us for our annual webinar. The Report's author, Gerald L. Maatman, Jr., along with Lorie Almon, chair of our wage & hour group, and Ian Morrison, co-chair of our ERISA class action group, will cover a changed national landscape in workplace class action litigation. In our workplace class action webinar, highlights from the Report will outline a number of key trends for employers in 2017, including:
- The implications and fall-out from the Supreme Court's key decisions on complex employment litigation and class action issues of 2016, and discussion of the cases accepted for review that are posed for rulings in 2017.
- Lessons to be learned from the monetary value of the top employment-related class action settlements and why they declined significantly in 2016 after they reached all-time highs in 2014 and 2015.
- The background on why more favorable class certification rulings for the plaintiffs' bar were issued in 2016 than in past years.
- How the private plaintiffs' bar is likely to "fill the void" after the Trump inauguration and increase the number of wage & hour lawsuit filings in 2017, following case filing statistics reflecting that wage & hour litigation filings decreased over the past year for the first time in a decade.
- Why there were more conditional certification and decertification decisions in the wage & hour space than in any other area of workplace class action litigation.
- The dynamics behind the U.S. Department of Labor and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's continued aggressive litigation approaches in 2016 and what is in store for government enforcement litigation under the Trump Administration.
The date and time of the webinar is February 21, 2017:
1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Central Time
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Mountain Time
10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time
Speakers: Lorie Almon, Gerald L. Maatman, Jr., and Ian Morrison
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