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The Law Firm of Christopher Q. Davis announces that Rachel M. Haskell has made Partner.  This was not a hard decision.  Deciding what to have for breakfast was harder.  This is because Rachel is a terrific human being and an excellent lawyer.  She is respected and liked by our staff, other lawyers, and judges.  Who will replace Rachel as an Associate, you ask? Now that is a difficult decision.  Her shoes are impossible to fill.  So starting in October we

The Law Office of Christopher Q. Davis, located in New York City, recently received preliminary approval for a $4.1 million dollar settlement on behalf of IT workers. The Law Office of Christopher Q. Davis represented a class of IT employees who worked at FDM Group, Inc. These employees argued that they were misclassified as overtime-exempt and should have received overtime wages. After nearly 6 months of negotiations on this issue, The Law Office of Christopher Q. Davis struck a $4.1

The Law Office of Christopher Q. Davis has filed a class action lawsuit against Garda, USA on behalf of Garda employees in New York State. Garda dispatches employees in armored vehicles to provide secure cash vault, ATM, and armored transport services for financial institutions and other businesses throughout Long Island and Manhattan. The Complaint alleges that Garda drivers, messengers, guards, and ATM technicians were denied lawful minimum wage and overtime compensation, in violation of New York Labor Law. Garda also

The Law Office of Christopher Q. Davis recently won a decision on the certification of wage claims for sushi restaurant workers in Brooklyn, New York. Firm partners Christopher Davis and Rachell Haskell advocated for former servers at Mitoushi Sushi. Davis and Haskell successfully argued that Mitoushi did not pay workers minimum wage and overtime pay as required by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).  Therefore, the Court decided that “Plaintiffs’ motion for conditional certification as a FLSA collective action, and

Judge Woods of the U.S. District Court Southern District of New York recently granted our firm’s motion. Our firm moved to invalidate deceptive arbitration agreements on behalf of IT workers in a class-action lawsuit. The Court found that the IT employer’s new arbitration policy was instituted in bad faith. IT workers were required to sign the arbitration agreement in order to keep their jobs, essentially giving them no choice but to sign away their rights in court. Because the IT

The Law Office of Christopher Q. Davis is proud to announce that our attorney Rachel Haskell was named as a rising star to the Super Lawyers New York Metro 2019 listing. We are also pleased to share that Christopher Q. Davis was named as a Superlawyer. Our attorneys know what it takes to win. We are committed to working on all employment legal needs, and our hard work delivers excellent results to clients.

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The following statements are recent testimonials from a federal judge on the high-quality work of the Law Office of Christopher Q. Davis:

“You have an extremely high rate of contacting the class members and only one person opted
out, so that seems very positive.”
“And, you know, here the monies are quite substantial in light of the best possible recovery. You know, in a FLSA case, 75 cents on the dollar of your best estimate is a very good recovery for plaintiff when

United Capital Financial Advisers is being sued by a former employee who claims she experienced racial discrimination and retaliation at the firm.

Tracey Chung alleges that her supervisor would publicly humiliate and berate her, and constantly micromanage her work, according to a lawsuit filed last week in a Dallas, Texas federal court. Chung claims that she was singled out by this supervisor because she was the only Asian woman in the office and was viewed as an easy target.

Chung reported the behavior to the

FDM, an internet technology (IT) staffer, has serviced over 50 clients across the United States. The Law Office of Christopher Q. Davis, located in New York City, recently won a motion against FDM to conditionally certify an FLSA collective. Our Law Office alleges that FDM’s IT consultants were not paid overtime. While the defendant claims the IT consultants are overtime exempt, we argue that FDM has not complied with the overtime policies in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The