The cases left on the docket feature a glitzy list of Manhattan-based fashion and media defendants—Dolce & Gabbana, Ralph Lauren, Giorgio Armani, CBS, Simon & Schuster and many others. More than 40 “active” lawsuits in all, claiming that the companies’ unpaid internship programs violated employment laws.

Both before and after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in its 2015 Glatt v. Fox Searchlight Pictures decision, curtailed the ability of unpaid interns to sue for back wages as a class in federal court, two New York firms have been teaming up to bring a slew of putative intern class actions in state court in Manhattan.

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