U.S. District Judge Ronnie Abrams has rebuffed Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan once again, rejecting the firm’s attempt to appeal her prior decision denying its motion to dismiss a suit filed earlier this year by a contract attorney seeking overtime pay he claims he is owed for document review work he did.
Abrams tossed Quinn Emanuel’s motion to dismiss the suit—which attorney William Henig filed in Manhattan federal district court in March—earlier this month. In his complaint, Henig alleges that Quinn Emanuel and legal staffing agency Providus violated overtime pay provisions of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) during the six-week stint he spent as a contract attorney in August 2012 doing document review related to pending litigation in August.
