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Firm attorneys named 2008 Super Lawyers.
Four of the Firm’s shareholders were recently selected as Northern California Super Lawyers for 2008 by Law & Politics. Jeffrey Lewis, Daniel Feinberg and Teresa Renaker were named for their practice of Employee Benefits/ERISA law. Bill Lann Lee was named in the Employment and Labor law area. All have been named Super Lawyers in previous years. In addition, Teresa Renaker was named as one of The Top 50 Women lawyers in Northern California for 2008. For more information about the selection process visit www.superlawyers.com.
Class Action Seeking Recovery of Lost Retirement Benefits Filed on Behalf of Former Employees of ANB Financial, N.A.
A class action filed on behalf of over 250 former employees of ANB Financial, N.A., charges that the bank holding company, individual trustees, and other fiduciaries of the ANB Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) breached their duties to plan participants by continuing to invest participants’ retirement savings in company stock even after the fiduciaries knew that the bank was engaged in unsafe and unsound banking practices. The action further charges that the fiduciaries actively misrepresented the condition of company stock to the employees and failed to disclose to the employees the information they needed to protect their retirement savings. The case, entitled Taylor, Crosswhite, and Godsey v. ANB Bancshares, Inc., et. al., was filed in federal court in Fayetteville, Arkansas. View our press release and press coverage of the case.
For more information about this class action, contact Teresa Renaker or Jeff Lewis.
Preliminary Approval of Dynegy Settlement Granted
On April 30, 2008, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois granted preliminary approval of the class action settlement in Lively v. Dynegy, Inc.. The class plaintiffs alleged that the fiduciaries of the Illinois Power Company Incentive Savings Plan for Employees Covered Under a Collective Bargaining Agreement breached their duties to the Plan’s participants by investing and permitting the investment of Plan assets in stock of the sponsoring employer, Dynegy, Inc. The Court had previously certified a class of all Plan participants whose accounts held Dynegy stock beginning February 1, 2000, and had appointed the law firms of Lewis, Feinberg, Lee, Renaker & Jackson and Schuchat, Cook & Werner as class counsel. The Defendants’ appeal from the class certification order was pending at the time of the settlement. The Court will hold a fairness hearing on the settlement on September 4, 2008. For more information, contact Teresa Renaker, Jeff Lewis, or Margo Hasselman. See case documents
Lewis, Feinberg, Lee, Renaker & Jackson, P.C. , and the ACLU urge Konica Minolta Not to Terminate Domestic Partner Health Insurance of 9/11 Survivor
Seeking to maintain health insurance for a 9/11 survivor, the Firm and the American Civil Liberties Union today sent a demand letter to the New Jersey offices of Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. (KMBS) urging the company to interpret its policy on domestic partner health insurance so that more employees will have access to the insurance. KMBS currently interprets its policy as requiring employees to re-register as domestic partners with the state every time that they move, even though many states have no way for same-sex partners to do so. For more information about this case, view our press release and coverage of the case on ABC News or CNN.
Lewis, Feinberg, Lee, Renaker & Jackson, P.C. , Sullivan Taketa LLP, and MALDEF Join Forces In A Lawsuit To Recover Wages For Employees Who Were Forced To Work “Off The Clock” Without Pay
The firm, along with co-counsel, represent plaintiffs and a putative class of construction workers, who plaintiffs allege have been wrongfully denied pay for all the hours they work. These claims for unpaid wages could affect over a thousand workers throughout California who work for Western Insulation, Paragon Schmid, or Masco Contractor Services. View press release about the case in English or Spanish.
For further information about the case, please contact Todd Jackson or Teresa Renaker.
If you are not being paid for all the time you work, please contact us.