Tuesday, 05 October 2021 17:33
Chris Marlborough Awarded Recognition of Distinguished Professional Achievement in Labor and Employment Law
On September 29, 2021, Christopher Marlborough was the 2021 recipient of Lawrence Solotoff, Esq. Recognition of Distinguished Professional Achievement by the Labor and Employment Committee of the Nassau County Bar Association. Keith Frank, Chair of the Selection Committee for the award noted that “past recipients of this Recognition include people who have shown a similar commitment to the field of Labor & Employment Law, including federal judges, a law school dean, members of both the plaintiff and defense Bars and neutrals, all of whom have pioneered the concepts and stare decisis in the field of Labor & Employment Law.” The…
Monday, 04 October 2021 21:27
Christopher Marlborough Receives SuperLawyers Recognition for Ninth Straight Year
Christopher Marlborough, Principal Attorney of the Marlborough Law Firm, P.C., has been selected for the 2021 NYC Metro SuperLawyers’ list. This is the ninth year in a row that Mr. Marlborough received recognition by the rating service. In 2013 and 2014, Chris was selected to SuperLawyers’ NYC Metro Rising Stars list for young and newly admitted attorneys. In 2015-2021, Mr. Marlborough was selected to the NYC Metro SuperLawyers list for more experienced attorneys. According to SuperLawyers.com, the list represents no more than five percent of lawyers in the state. The organization describes its thorough selection process as follows: Super Lawyers…
Friday, 05 February 2021 10:47
Class Members Receive Initial Payments in $7,140,000 Call-A-Head Lawsuit Settlement
On February 2021, initial payments were sent to class members as part of the $7,140,000 million settlement approved by the Court in Vargas v. Howard, et al. The complaint alleged that defendants failed to pay their portable toilet service technicians overtime for working more than forty hours. The case was filed in June 2015 and the Marlborough Law firm was appointed Co-Lead Class Counsel in 2018. The settlement was approved by Magistrate Judge Debra Freeman of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on October 30, 2020. More than 1,200 hundred class members will receive payments under the…
Monday, 04 January 2021 07:12
A Woman’s Work: The NFL’s Cheerleader Problem, Premieres on PBS
Following its successful debut at the Tribeca film festival last year, January 4, 2021 marked the television premiere of A Woman’s Work: The NFL’s Cheerleader Problem on PBS as part of its Independent Lens series. The film was directed by Yu Gu and produced by Elizabeth Ai. According to the PBS website: A Woman’s Work: The NFL’s Cheerleader Problem sheds light on the continued fight to end the gender pay gap prevalent throughout the National Football League. For over 50 years, the NFL has employed cheerleaders—women who are lifelong athletes expected to both maintain a peak physical condition and fulfill extreme…
Tuesday, 20 October 2020 02:45
Christopher Marlborough Receives SuperLawyers Recognition for Eighth Straight Year
Christopher Marlborough, Principal Attorney of the Marlborough Law Firm, P.C., has been selected for the 2020 NYC Metro SuperLawyers’ list. This is the eighth year in a row that Mr. Marlborough received recognition by the rating service. In 2013 and 2014, Chris was selected to SuperLawyers’ NYC Metro Rising Stars list for young and newly admitted attorneys. In 2015-2020, he was selected to the NYC Metro SuperLawyers list for more experienced attorneys. According to SuperLawyers.com, the list represents no more than five percent of lawyers in the state. The organization describes its thorough selection process as follows: Super Lawyers…
Thursday, 15 October 2020 19:41
Court Approves $11 million Settlement In Discount Store Wage Theft Class Action
On October 16, 2020, Magistrate Judge Sara Netburn of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York approved the $11 million settlement in In Re Doria Memon Discount Stores Wage and Hour Litigation. As part of the settlement, more than 90 class members will receive an average of more than $70,000 dollars. The case concerned the alleged failure to pay overtime and minimum wage to the discount store workers as well as claims for workplace retaliation. The action was filed in October 2014 and the Marlborough Law firm was appointed Co-Lead Class Counsel in 2017. The…
Monday, 21 October 2019 22:31
Christopher Marlborough Receives SuperLawyers Recognition for Seventh Straight Year
Christopher Marlborough, Principal Attorney of the Marlborough Law Firm, P.C., has been selected for the 2019 NYC Metro SuperLawyers’ list. This is the seventh year in a row that Mr. Marlborough received recognition by the rating service. In 2013 and 2014, Chris was selected to SuperLawyers’ NYC Metro Rising Stars list for young and newly admitted attorneys. In 2015-2019, Mr. Marlborough was selected to the NYC Metro SuperLawyers list for more experienced attorneys. According to SuperLawyers.com, the list represents no more than five percent of lawyers in the state. The organization describes its thorough selection process as follows:…
Thursday, 13 June 2019 05:41
Class Certified in Oheka Castle Catering Workers Lawsuit
On June 4, 2019, the Honorable Judge Paul J. Baisley, Jr., of the Supreme Court of New York for Suffolk County certified a class of banquet servers, bartenders, housemen and parking valets in a case against Gary Melius, entities operating Oheka Castle and other defendants in connection with the alleged failure to pay workers for overtime and for all hours worked. The case is styled Kish, et al. v. Oheka Management Corp., et. al., Index No. 618446/2016. In the Class Certification Order, the Marlborough Law Firm was appointed Class Counsel for the and three plaintiffs were appointed as representatives of…
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Thursday, 13 September 2018 01:28
Christopher Marlborough Receives Superlawyers Recognition for Sixth Straight Year
Christopher Marlborough, Principal Attorney of the Marlborough Law Firm, P.C., has been selected for the 2018 NYC Metro SuperLawyers’ list. This is the sixth year in a row that Mr. Marlborough received recognition by the rating service. In 2013 and 2014, Chris was selected to SuperLawyers’ NYC Metro Rising Stars list for young and newly admitted attorneys. In 2015, 2016 and 2017, Mr. Marlborough was selected to the NYC Metro SuperLawyers list for more experienced attorneys. According to SuperLawyers.com, the list represents no more than five percent of lawyers in the state. The organization describes its thorough selection…
Thursday, 19 April 2018 14:52
Chris Marlborough Comments Before NY Labor Commissioner
Christopher Marlborough, Principal Attorney of the Marlborough Law Firm, P.C. offered his comments on a proposal to abolish the subminimum wage for tipped employees in the State. More than one hundred other New Yorkers offered their comments to Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon at Farmingdale State College this morning. Under the current system, most workers are entitled to the full minimum wage for the county in which they work, while employers of tipped workers do not have to pay the full minimum wage. For example, most non-exempt workers in Nassau and Suffolk Counties are entitled to a minimum wage of $11.00,…
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