Over the last two years, a trickle of employment class actions brought on behalf of unpaid interns has become a flood. Two of the plaintiffs firms spearheading the cases, Virginia & Ambinder and Leeds Brown Law, have filed at least a half-dozen suits against employers whose internship programs allegedly violated the Fair Labor Standards Act, including Viacom Inc., Warner Music Group and, most recently, CBS Broadcasting Inc.
Now, thanks to a dustup with one erstwhile client and unfavorable rulings by two judges, the firms’ case against CBS is dead on arrival, and the Warner Music and Viacom cases are left without the threat of a jury trial hanging over the defendants.
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