I have been following this protracted saga for some time and there is another chapter now being written.  The law firm of Skadden Arps is being sued in a Fair Labor Standards Act collective action by lawyers claiming they were not doing legal work because all they did was document review.  In argument before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, the firm argued that the theory that document review work was not “practicing law” […]

Can a small retailer be required to let an employee turn away customers she cannot serve due to a disability as part of “reasonable accommodation”?

Store Manager Robabeh Poursadi developed a work-related wrist injury that precluded her from performing some of the customer service aspects of her position. The case did not make it clear what tasks she was unable to perform, but a reasonable inference can be made that the wrist injury would have […]