FedEx Loses Bid to Bounce Lichten & Liss-Riordan From Wage Case

FedEx Ground Package System Inc. can’t disqualify Lichten & Liss-Riordan PC from a nationwide driver-misclassification collective action, a Pennsylvania federal court ruled.

LLR’s representation of the plaintiffs in this case doesn’t conflict with its duty to clients in another action against FedEx in New Jersey, Judge Robert J. Colville of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania said Thursday.

The court denied FedEx’s motion to disqualify the firm, and it cleared the plaintiffs to notify more than 150,000 drivers about the chance to opt into the conditionally certified collective.

LLR represents Angel Sullivan-Blake and Horace Claiborne in ...