Howrey LLP Faces WARN Act Litigation, Pay Claims Over Firm Dissolution, Shutdown

Howrey LLP, a law firm that announced its dissolution last month, is now facing allegations in federal courts on the East and West Coasts that the firm terminated the employment of hundreds of staff members without providing the advance notice required by the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (Langley v. Howrey LLP; Thomas v. Howrey LLP).

In the first lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York April 4, plaintiff Stephanie Langley alleges that more than 500 employees were terminated at the end of March in “mass layoffs and/or ...