Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto -- Lying, Low Class Sweatshop

Highlighted from the comments section:

"BEWARE of the firm Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto!

This is a firm that this past week started a '6 day project, through the weekend, with intensive hours' on a Thursday (so they won't have to pay any OT), then 'breaks the news' on Friday that 'there will be no work on the weekend and your services won't be needed until Monday night at 6 pm (?) or Tuesday morning for one day.'

This bullshit is occurring right now.

The project was staffed by Special Counsel, which doesn't seem to be a problem agency, at least not as much of a problem agency as FrankenDine, Update, or Lex. It seems that Fitzpatrick might have played them, too.

But you never know with these scumbag agencies - I'm sure common sense would've told them that they'd never be able to staff the project if they gave the real terms.

People have said that Fitzpatrick Cella plays this bait & switch game a lot."


"Horrible. We were shoved into a tiny room with no a/c. Air was stale and hot. We were watched constantly, and leaving the building was extremely difficult, if not impossible. We were cheated out of overtime, and the woman that ran the project tried to deny us our food and transportation, even though we were initially promised the stipend and even though we were required to work past 10 pm."


"Second that!

I was on a case for those assholes months and months ago. They would constantly run out of docs and send us home for a day or more while they reloaded.

While those problems might be IT/Hudson related, there was this asshole:
http://www.fitzpatrickcella.com/attorneys/bio.cfm?id=239

He roamed the cubicles and would literally knock on our cubicle walls if we were talking. Then one day he came up while I was eating my lunch and playing solitaire, very clearly on a break, and yelled at me for wasting billable time. Ironically, that was one of the few times when I wasn't on the clock and wasting billable time, but what did he know.

Anyway, I left that project and despite being called by Alan, Julie and Brett to come to another Fitzpatrick job I turned them down."

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Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto motion passed 48 - 4.

Happy Halloween

"The Wicked Witch? Who could that be? Evelyn from De Novo, Nancy from Update, Nora from Lex?"

I'll get you, my pretty. And your little dog too! Off to the blacklist you go!

Motions

Dechert motion passed 53 - 18.

Hudson Legal motion passed 58 - 37.

Rumors

"Is the TTT school/legal world fraud coming to an end?

A "toilet-law" documentary, 2 posters doing doctorate/academic research of the law school statistical fraud and legal market crash, 'rumors' of the San Francisco DA investigating Contract/Temp Agencies, 1 lawyer jumping off the Empire State Building during the summer, a law student shooting up a law school, and someone mentioned talking w/ book publishers about doing a book about all this along with sending letters to 60-Minutes at CNN. Of course, not to be outdone by the Wall Street Journal Cover last month. Is the facade cracking? Will any change actually happen? If so, what?"

I want to hear more about the San Francisco D.A. investigation rumor. Where are the California Tom the Temps?

Going Bonkers In Brussels

Come to think of it, someone did flip out this summer. Good thing they weren't carrying a loaded weapon.

The "incident" didn't occur in America, but rather overseas on Chelsea Silverman's Brussels project. See the world is flat now, and misery is exported. 12 hour days, stressful and hostile legal work environments are now a global phenomena.

Reports have it that the two suspects were ok separately in small doses. But the combination of the two of them was explosive. They just rubbed each other the wrong way and the bad feelings between them just grew and festered. Neither of them wanted to take the high road.

So when they were alone they just went for it. Rumor has it that there was slapping, screaming, and vicious hair-pulling.

The aggressor, a Jamaican woman who is notoriously colorful, loud, and extremely overbearing with a reputation for being aggressive, was deported back to America.

The San Francisco Sweatshop Overseers Flee To New York

The New York Quinn Emanuel project could never be pulled off quite so diabolically in San Francisco. Unlike New York, overtime is required for any time worked over 8 hours in any ONE day - any time worked over 12 hrs. would require double time. Paid 30 minute breaks are required, so Quinn's shenanigans of docking people when they take a quick bathroom break wouldn't be tolerated. Furthermore, after 30 hrs worked, employees are entitled to one hour of sick leave http://www.laboremploymentlawblog.com/employee-benefits-san-francisco-voters-mandate-paid-sick-leave-for-employees.html. Universal health care is also in the works. E.P. Dine's unenforceable labor contracts (where they try to dock you for 2 weeks of pay, if you dare leave one of their crappy temp gigs) and Lexolution's locking of fire safety doors would engender public protest, or possibly even criminal prosecution.

In reality, what we have is Quinn Emanuel fleeing these worker rights obligations and, with the help of Dickhead Osman, setting up a notorious white-collar sweatshop in the heart of New York City. Tired, worked to the bone, overtaxed, middle class New Yorkers send San Francisco millions of dollars in partner profits, and what does New York get back in return? Haley.

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Who is ready for another week of document review?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=TfKTVqKXz4o&mode=related&search=.

Agencies Behaving Badly

Increasingly, certain agencies are secretly paying their contract employees on 1099 so they can increase their profits and not pay unemployment.