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What is an employment class action lawsuit?

In the employment contacts a class action law suit is most often times involving wage and hours issues - where your employer hasn’t paid you overtime, or hasn’t paid you time and a half for that overtime, or in the state of New York hasn’t offered you the lunch break and certain deals that you’re entitled to. If that employer has treated a certain group of employees, say all of the secretaries who are paid hourly, the same way you can take certain of those employees and have them be representative of a class, which is the group of secretaries. And that is essentially what an employment related class action is. It can also arise in the discrimination context. But you need to have a class. In other words you need to have a large group of similarly situation people. My name is Walker Harman. I am the managing attorney of the Harman Firm. If you believe that you’ve been the victim of illegal employment discrimination, we are eager to speak to you! Please give us a call.

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attorney: The Harman Firm, P.C.

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What is a typical employment class action lawsuit?

In the employment context, a typical class-action lawsuit would be one where the employer has failed to, and in some cases deliberately, knowingly failed to pay employees, hourly employees, overtime and time-and-a-half and also violated other rights that are available under New York statue such as your right to, for instance, take a lunch break. If your employer has done that to you and to a group of similarly situated people, say all dispatchers in a company...all phone dispatchers...or all people who clean in the building and work for the same company. If that employer has violated any of those rights that I have described, that would be a typical class-action lawsuit. My name is Walker Harman. I'm the Managing Attorney of the Harman Firm. If you believe you have been the victim of illegal employment discrimination, we are eager to speak with you. Please give us a call.

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attorney: The Harman Firm, P.C.

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Does the bank want to take my home in New York?

The bank wants to take your home in order to sell the home and pay off the mortgage and then it's no longer on the books as a non-performing loan. Years ago, maybe a year or two ago, a bank would relish the opportunity of taking over the property, buying it in at a foreclosure sale, and then selling it to someone else and having a new mortgage on it, but now there are too many houses coming into foreclosure and the banks don't want that inventory. They don't want the property to be non-performing, they want to reach an agreement if they can and have the property continue to pay the bank money. That's their objective now. I'm Carl Person, I'm a New York lawyer, and my job is to help people stay in their homes.

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attorney: Carl E. Person

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How long does it take a NY bank to foreclose on my house?

People wonder how long it takes for a foreclosure action to cause them to lose their home. The answer is that if you don't defend you could lose your home in about four months. If you do defend and you lose, you would lose your home in about 14 months. The purpose of defending however, is not to lose your home but in order to reach an agreement in order to save your home. I'm Carl Person, I'm a New York lawyer and my job is to help people stay in their homes.

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attorney: Carl E. Person

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How long do medical malpractice lawsuits take?

The time from when the client walks into the door until the proceeds of the case are distributed is ordinarily between three and four years. It's a function of the availability of the court, the number of cases in the courts, the particular county where the action was brought and the complexity of the case - the amount of time that's necessary to do discovery, to find out all the elements of the case and to try them if the case needs to be tried. I'm Stephen North. I specialize in medical malpractice litigation. My office is located in a townhouse in the upper east side of Manhattan. We welcome your call.

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attorney: Steven E. North

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What is the alternative to letting a bank foreclose on my home?

The worst thing that I experience in dealing with the mortgage foreclosure situations is the prospective clients who call me up and tell me their tale of woe: that they have a default judgment, the property is going to be sold, what can they do? I tell them the whole thing of what they should have done. I say, "You should have stopped paying. You should have precipitated a foreclosure action. You should have defended within the 20-day period, and you wouldn't be here now. You would be sitting in your home with a modification. But instead -- because you didn't do anything and the banks were at fault because they talked with you and they made you believe you didn't have to do anything -- you must do something. You have to defend the foreclosure action even though you are talking with a bank. And if you don't do that you are going to make me cry when you call me belatedly three or four months later." I'm Carl Person. I'm a New York lawyer, and my job is to help people stay in their homes.

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attorney: Carl E. Person

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How can US lattorneys take on large overseas corporations in the flat-panel price fixing scheme?

The question arises once again of how can United States attorneys be involved in litigation like this which is focused on the manufacturers of flat panel screens, all of which are basically in the Asian countries. All nine of them. And the way it works is that lawyers band together in which they can focus on the harm that is created, asking the judge to certify this class to stop the injustice of their fixing prices. And we have evidence that they've had some 50 some meetings; every single one of these manufacturers was involved in these meetings, in which the only purpose of the meetings was fixing prices to sell the product to the United States consumers. My name is Tom Girardi. I'm the senior partner of Girardi Keese. For the past 44 years we have helped people in California who've been seriously harmed. I'm very proud of the work that we've done and the role we have played.

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attorney: Girardi & Keese Lawyers

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What can I do about workplace retribution?

If you are afraid of retribution in the workplace, you have to make a choice. Are you going to suffer through the sexual harrasment and potentially ruin what could be a good case against your company or are you going to take action. Let your company know. Have faith in the system and contact an attorney. And that's ultimately your choice. If you make the choice to not do anything about it, in my experience, the situation will get worse and you will suffer more. My name is Walker Harmon. I'm the managing attorney of the Harmon Firm. If you believe you've been the victim of illegal employment discrimination, we are eager to speak with you. Please give us a call.

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attorney: The Harman Firm, P.C.

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If I'm injured in a car accident, what should I do first?

First and foremost, you should take care of yourself. Call your primary care physician, schedule an appointment with your doctor, go see your doctor. Then you should call an attorney, an attorney that is qualified, an attorney that is experienced in personal injury law. You can seek the advice of an attorney at any time. However, there are time limits where claims must be filed prior to the expiration of those time limits, otherwise you will lose your rights to bring an action against the responsible party. My name is Guy Moutsubano of Kantrovitz and Associates. We've been helping people in the Greater Boston area with automobile accident claims, worker's compensation, Social Security disability claims for the last twenty years.

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attorney: Kantrovitz & Associates, P.C.

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How is sexual harassment in college defined?

There is a specific statute that prevents sexual harassment on a college campus that receives federal funds. It's a federal statute. It applies in the state of New York as well. And if your particular college or university receives federal funds (the vast majority of them do,) your particular college or university will fall under the statute and it prevents any type of sexual harassment on a college campus and if the college doesn't take immediate action to prevent further sexual harassment or address or redress the sexual harassment it can be held liable for it under the federal statute. My name is Walker Harman. I'm the managing attorney of the Harman Firm. If you believe you've been the victim of illegal employment discrimination, we are eager to speak with you. Please give us a call.

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attorney: The Harman Firm, P.C.