An attorney hired on a temporary contract basis to review documents at a law firm is not entitled to overtime pay because his work involved using his judgment as a lawyer, a federal judge has ruled.
December 31, 2015 at 12:00 AM
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An attorney hired on a temporary contract basis to review documents at a law firm is not entitled to overtime pay because his work involved using his judgment as a lawyer, a federal judge has ruled.
William Henig sought overtime pay from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan under the Fair Labor Standards Act, saying he did no more than review 13,000 documents for whether they were, or were not, responsive to a discovery request.
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