Dewey Docket: Laid-Off Staff to Have Their Day in Court

Ramin Talaie for The Wall Street Journal

A former Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP document specialist who sued the law firm last year after 450 staffers were told they would be laid off amid the firm's collapse will be given her day in court, a federal bankruptcy judge ruled this week. Vittoria Conn had filed a class action in federal court last May alleging the troubled law firm failed to give proper notice to the employees, as required by state and federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) laws. Ms. Conn sought relief on behalf of herself and the other staffers for wages they would have earned had the notice been issued within the required time period--60 days under the federal statute, 90 days under New York law and 30 days under California law. After Dewey sought Chapter 11 protection later that month, Ms. Conn filed an adversary proceeding class action complaint in federal bankruptcy court, which if approved would allow her to present her case before the bankruptcy judge. . .

Source: http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2013/02/12/dewey-docket-laid-off-staff-to-have-their-day-in-court/?mod=WSJBlog

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