Joseph J. Centeno and Monica L. Simmons of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney have stepped in as defense counsel to Kooma III LLC in a pending collective employment action. The action was filed Sept. 22 in Pennsylvania Eastern District Court by Winebrake & Santillo on behalf of individuals employed by the defendant as servers who allege that they were not fully paid for hours worked due to the defendant's misapplication of 'tip credit' toward their wages. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Karen S. Marston, is 2:23-cv-03704, Lunemann v. Kooma III LLC.