Remember the name David Lola. He may have started something of a revolution in legal services. Lola is a licensed attorney who was working in North Carolina doing document review for the law firm Skadden Arps. Believing he should he should be paid overtime, he filed a class action claim under the Fair Labor Labor Standards Act alleging that his job consisted of: (a) looking at documents to see if any designated search terms popped up in them; (b) sorting those documents into pre-determined categories; and (c) at times drawing black boxes to redact portions of certain documents based on protocols determined by Skadden.
Lola was paid $25 an hour, although the opinion does not disclose the hourly rate that Skadden used to charge the client for his time.
