A former David Letterman intern's awkward retreat from a labor lawsuit against CBS Broadcasting Inc. hasn't stopped plaintiffs firms from rounding up more interns to sue their employers.

Over the past month, Virginia & Ambinder and Leeds Brown Law have jointly filed at least three new proposed class actions in New York on behalf of unpaid interns who claim they were illegally deprived wages. Their latest suit, filed Tuesday in state court in Manhattan, accuses Gucci America Inc. of violating New York labor laws since at least November 2008 by hiring interns to work for free. In October the firms filed similar suits against Marc Jacobs International LLC, Calvin Klein Inc. and Calvin Klein parent company PVH Corp.

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