On May 25, 2023, the O’Brien Law Firm filed suit on behalf of 18 field inspectors in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas for over $1 million in unpaid bonuses and unpaid overtime pay and penalties. That case is B…
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On April 5, 2023, the O’Brien Law Firm filed suit against Cognitus Consulting, LLC, a global firm specializing in SAP consulting (Systems, Applications, and Processes) for companies to help those companies find and implement the software applic…
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In February and March 2023, the O’Brien Law Firm filed arbitrations for two former employees of 3B Inspection, LLC of Tarrant County, Texas. 3B Inspection provides safety inspectors for pipeline projects in Texas and New Mexico. Both of these f…
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Texas employment attorney Kerry O’Brien was recently interviewed for and quoted in an article by the Harvard student-run newspaper, the Harvard Crimson, concerning a company’s failure to pay and communicate with its workers after an acqui…
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Super Lawyers by Thomson Reuters is the premier attorney recognition publication in the legal profession. Kerry O’Brien of the O’Brien Law Firm was just named a 2023 Texas Super Lawyer. The Super Lawyers organization selects lawyers based…
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On December 27, 2022, the O’Brien Law Firm, in conjunction with co-counsel Gasper Law PLLC, filed a class action case for potentially hundreds of desk insurance adjusters nationwide who work or have worked in the past three years for Catastroph…
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In March 2022, the O’Brien Law Firm represented Austin commercial real estate agent T.S. against Austin commercial real estate development firm and broker Canvas Properties, LLC, run by Rance Clouse, for T.S.’s unpaid commissions in conne…
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One job position commonly treated as exempt from overtime, but which appears to be non-exempt under the law (must be paid overtime pay), is a CAD (computer-aided design) drafter. CAD drafters typically use programs such as AutoCAD, IntelliCAD, and Si…
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On May 18, 2022, the O’Brien Law Firm filed suit in a Travis County court on behalf of a former employee of an Austin-based technology startup geared towards governmental entities. The employee was laid off, but the company failed to pay his pr…
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In February 2022, just before a sales representative and his former employer were about to start a jury trial over his claim for over $200,000 in unpaid sales commissions, the parties settled the dispute on confidential terms. In that case, Cause No.…
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