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Seventh Circuit Establishes New Standard for FLSA Conditional Collective Certification: How This May Benefit Employers

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The Seventh Circuit’s recent decision in Richards v. Eli Lilly & Co. et al. (Aug. 5, 2025) marks a pivotal shift in how district courts manage collective actions under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) across Illinois,...more

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Seventh Circuit Richards: A New Flexible Framework for Courts Issuing Notice of Collective Actions

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has provided a new framework for district courts to apply when deciding whether to issue notice to potential plaintiffs of a pending collective action under the Fair Labor...more

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Seventh Circuit Departs from Traditional Two-Step Collective Certification Framework in FLSA and ADEA Cases

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With a nod to discretion and practicality, the Seventh Circuit has become the latest U.S. Court of Appeals to depart from the traditional two-step collective certification process in cases brought under the Fair Labor...more

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Court raises the bar for plaintiffs seeking to certify collective actions under FLSA, ADEA

Another federal appellate court has rejected the Lusardi approach to managing collective actions under the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. In Richards v. Eli Lilly & Co., the U.S....more

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Sanctioning Deposition No-Shows in 2025

The blog post Turning Deposition No-Shows to the Client’s Advantage proved popular with our readers when written (2021!) and for years afterward. The sustained readership of that article is gratifying but also disappointing...more

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New Rules Tackle Authentication of Electronic Data

On December 1, 2017, two amendments to the Federal Rules of Evidence came into effect that impact how courts authenticate digital evidence. The addition of two categories to Rule 902’s list of self-authenticating documents...more

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The New Rules Of Federal Evidence Have Arrived

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Earlier this year, I wrote about the then-proposed changes to the Federal Rules, and how those changes (if implemented), could impact electronic discovery. (February 15, 2017 blog) Well, the time has come — effective...more

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New Federal Rules of Evidence 902(13) and 902(14)

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You’ve got a case headed to trial in a few short months, and among your exhibits are a number of copies of web pages. You know you need to authenticate them to get them into evidence at trial (and also know your judge is...more

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