Earlier this month, Governor Brown signed new legislation (SB 954), which requires lawyers to provide their clients with a printed disclosure describing the confidentiality restrictions applicable to mediation. This disclosure must be provided to a client as soon as reasonably possible before the client agrees to participate in a mediation. Lawyers also will be required to obtain a printed acknowledgement, signed by their
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Wage & Hour Class Action Settlement Is Vacated Because Of Insufficiency Of Record
By Tony Oncidi on
Kullar v. Foot Locker Retail, Inc., 168 Cal. App. 4th 116 (2008)
Crystal Echeverria and two other objectors challenged the fairness and adequacy of a settlement of a class action lawsuit involving approximately 18,000 Foot Locker employees who were required to “purchase and wear shoes of a distinctive design or color as a term and condition of their employment” (the “uniform class”) as well…