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Hope Pordy was interviewed by Law360 in November 2025 about an FLSA case the firm filed on November 13, 2025, on behalf of 465 Special Officers and Sergeants who work for the New York City Department of Homeless Services. The firm has handled dozens of cases against the City of New York and other New York City entities for their repeated failures to properly compensate workers for the overtime work they perform in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act. As quoted by Law36

The NYU Journal of Legislation and Public Policy published Peter Rawling’s article about federal labor law preemption and the payment of unemployment benefits to striking workers in its November 2025 edition. The article provides an overview of how many states don’t provide striking workers with unemployment benefits or make them wait longer to receive benefits than workers who are unemployed for other reasons. For example, in New York and New Jersey, striking workers must wa

Gillian Costello  has joined the Advisory Board of the Center for Labor and Employment Law at New York University School of Law.  The NYU Labor Center is a not-for-profit center at NYU School of Law that offers a non-partisan forum for the debate and study of the policy and legal issues affecting labor and employment law. The Center hosts an Annual Conference and a variety of other programs on issues relating to labor and employment law.  The Advisory Board provides advice an