Mark W. Lerner and Jonathan L. Shapiro Co-Author “U.S. Supreme Court’s Epic Systems Decision Holds That Employment Arbitration Agreements Barring Class Actions Are Lawful”

Kasowitz partner Mark W. Lerner and associate Jonathan L. Shapiro have co-authored “U.S. Supreme Court’s Epic Systems Decision Holds That Employment Arbitration Agreements Barring Class Actions Are Lawful,” published in Mealey’s Litigation Report: Class Actions.  In the article, Mr. Lerner and Mr. Shapiro examine Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision resolving a split among the federal circuits as to whether class and collective action waivers in employment agreements are lawful.  The article details how this decision implicates a major shift in power from employees to their employers.

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Mark W. Lerner, a former federal prosecutor, is a partner at Kasowitz Benson Torres and chair of its employment litigation and practices group.  Jonathan L. Shapiro is an employment litigation associate at Kasowitz.