Colorado Lawyers in Wage Case Over Firm Employment Settle Suit

An attorney and the Denver law firm he alleges hired him as an employee, not an independent contractor, when they teamed up on a case have settled their wage-and-hour dispute.

The parties stipulated to the dismissal with prejudice of the case—which involved the Fair Labor Standards Act and Colorado wage law—and “all claims that were asserted or could have been asserted” in it, according to their Nov. 28 filing in the US District Court for the District of Colorado. Judge Nina Wang previously chided both sides for failing to meet “the standards that this Court expects” from federal litigators.

Plaintiff ...