All eyes in the labor and employment bar were on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Friday, as a panel heard arguments that could decide the fate of a growing a wave of unpaid intern class actions. (See our preview of the arguments here.) But while one group of plaintiffs lawyers was fighting for the future of the litigation, another was busy filing fresh cases and hammering out the details of a new class settlement with Warner Music Group.
The impending agreement with WMG was disclosed in Manhattan federal court by Virginia & Ambinder and Leeds Brown Law, the two firms behind that case and a slew of others claiming that employers violated labor laws by failing to pay interns for their time. The plaintiffs haven’t yet disclosed the size of the settlement, but they told U.S. District Judge Paul Gardephe in a letter that they’d agreed on “the substantive terms” of a classwide deal.
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