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06/17/2022

Our Hugh Baran wrote for Slate about the Supreme Court's latest anti-worker ruling on forced arbitration, Viking River Cruises.

Read his article here: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/06/viking-river-cruises-supreme-court-arbitration-wage-theft.html

06/14/2022

We are so pleased to welcome interns Nirali Vyas and Nathan Ford and law graduate Anthony Damelio to the firm for the summer. Read more here:

https://kakaleclaw.com/welcome-anthony-nathan-and-nirali/

03/14/2022

We filed, along with the National Women's Law Center and Harrison, Harrison & Associates, an lawsuit against animal health company Zoetis.

Zoetis paid Dr. Yvonne Schulman as much as $105k less than men with the same job but less experience.

https://kakaleclaw.com/nwlc-kakalec-law-file-equal-pay-suit-against-zoetis/

Lawsuit Alleges Zoetis Maintained Stark Gender-Based Pay Disparity

12/21/2021

11/29/2021

https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2021/11/29/attorney-fee-award-boosts-south-georgia-migrant-workers-class-settlement-over-1-1m/

Lawyers for the workers claimed the defendants cheated migrant workers employed under the H-2A visa program of overtime pay and compensation for their travel and lodging expenses.

11/10/2021

The New York Times reports on our clients’ lawsuit: “A prominent Hindu sect that operates a New Jersey temple raided by federal authorities earlier this year is facing new accusations that it forced hundreds of low-caste workers to labor at worship sites across the United States under dangerous conditions for little pay."

More here:

The New York Times reports on our clients’ lawsuit: “A prominent Hindu sect that operates a New Jersey temple raided...

10/02/2021

Hugh Baran from Kakalec Law is quoted in Friday's Law360:

A cruise company's challenge to claims under a California law enabling workers to sue on behalf of the state for labor violations and a health care staffing company's question about whether overtime calculations must include per diem payments are among the cases the U.S. Supreme Court could soon agr...

09/28/2021

We very pleased to announce that Hugh Baran (https://kakaleclaw.com/hugh-baran/) has joined the Kakalec Law team today as an attorney. Hugh was most recently a Skadden fellow at the National Employment Law Project, where his work particularly focused on combating forced arbitration. Before joining NELP, Hugh clerked for U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in the District of Connecticut and U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert M. Levy in the Eastern District of New York. Hugh is a graduate of NYU Law School, where he was a Root-Tilden-Kern Public Interest Scholar and the Editor-in-Chief of the NYU Review of Law and Social Change, and Yale University. Before law school, Hugh was a community and political organizer with UNITE HERE.

After a first day that began with an early morning (in person) court conference, Hugh is off and running. His email is hugh @ kakaleclaw.com. Please join us in welcoming Hugh to the firm!

For the past decade, Hugh Baran (he/him) has worked to advance the rights of working people, in areas such as wage theft and discrimination.

09/14/2021

Join us tonight for a CLE about starting an employment law practice.

   90 Broad Street, Room 210 New York, NY 10004   (212) 710-2722  |    [email protected] PRIVACY STATEMENT TERMS OF SERVICE  

09/07/2021

Please join us for this NELA-NY CLE next week. It is free, 1.5 credits, and should have some helpful practical advice for moving into private practice.
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Starting Your Own Plaintiff-Side Employment Practice Series: How to Start a Plaintiff-Side Employment Practice for Less Than You Think

Tuesday, September 14- 6:00 PM - 07:30 PM Eastern

Click Here to Register: https://lnkd.in/dnYd-RSV

Have you always wanted to start a plaintiff-side employment practice but did not know how to take the first steps out the door to launch?
Did you think business ownership was simply financially out of reach for most attorneys?

Starting a successful plaintiff-side employment practice is easier and less expensive than you think.

Please join the National Employment Lawyers Association NY Affiliate for the first virtual installment of our:

Starting Your Own Plaintiff-Side Employment Practice Series: How to Start a Plaintiff-Side Employment Practice for Less Than You Think

(1.5 CLE: Law Practice Management)
Click Here to Register

Our first panel will include NELA/NY members:

Cyrus Dugger, The Dugger Law Firm, PLLC (moderator); Erin Lloyd, Lloyd Patel LLP; Wendy Dolce, Dolce Law PLLC; Patricia Kakalec, Kakalec Law PLLC; Zachary Liszka, Zachary J. Liszka, Esq.

Discussion topics will include personal stories from these practitioners on their first steps to owning their own plaintiff-side employment practice and lessons learned on what they would have done differently, as well as practical nuts and bolts recommendation on the technology, vendors, systems, and practices that helped these practitioners affordably launch employment practices.

This event is co-sponsored by NELA/NY’s DEI Committee and Solo Committee.

   90 Broad Street, Room 210 New York, NY 10004   (212) 710-2722  |    [email protected] PRIVACY STATEMENT TERMS OF SERVICE  

07/12/2021

Join Karen Yau of Kakalec Law to learn about workplace rights

On Tuesday, July 6th, Karen Kithan Yau gave a presentation via Zoom to community members organized by CCBA, a community organization that works with the Chinese-American community, on Workplace Rights. The workshop was interpreted into Mandarin Chinese. The 15 participants soaked up information about minimum wage, overtime, and other aspects of wage and hour law, including the difference between “exempt” and “non-exempt” employees. Ms. Yau also discussed the basic rights under employment discrimination law and NYC’s Paid Safe and Sick Leave Law.

The next presentation that Ms. Yau will give on Workplace Rights will be on Thursday, July 15th at 2PM for the Sunset Park, Brooklyn community. This workshop too will be interpreted into Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. She is also scheduled to discuss Workplace Rights again in September 2021 for the Crown Heights, Brooklyn community.

If you are interested in joining these presentations, please contact Ms. Yau at [email protected] to get the details.

05/11/2021

Our press release and a link to the Complaint in Kumar v. Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha, Inc. et al., 21-CV-11048 (D. NJ)

https://kakaleclaw.com/class-action-lawsuit-filed-on-behalf-of-
trafficked-workers/

CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT FILED ON BEHALF OF WORKERS TRAFFICKED BY MAJOR NEW JERSEY TEMPLE Workers Faced Forced Labor and Massive...