FJWW proudly represents a number of former Amazon Flex drivers in individual arbitrations regarding their misclassification as independent contractors.

On July 15, 2024, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the Western District of Texas’s certification of a class of more than 290,000 participants in more than 3,000 plans that provide employee benefits through the Contractors and Employees Retirement Trust (CERT) and the Contractors Plan Trust (CPT). Defendants Fringe Benefit Group (FBG) and Fringe Insurance Benefits, Inc. (FIBI) operate these two trusts and provide administrative and marketing services to plans that participate in the trusts. Plaintiffs allege that Defendants have violated ERISA by controlling disbursements from the trusts (including payment of their own excessive fees), using this control to collect fees that were not explicitly agreed to by employer and were never disclosed to plan participants, and selecting service providers for the plans that maximized Defendants’ compensation at the expense of participants.

FJWW is proud to join the Asian Law Caucus and Rideshare Drivers United in representing Uber and Lyft drivers in proceedings regarding safety citations issued to the two rideshare companies by Cal-OSHA during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ciara O’Neill joins FJWW as a Summer Law Clerk. Ciara is a rising 2L at Berkeley Law, where she is a Senior Executive Editor of the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law, Events Chair for the Plaintiffs’ Law Association, and Co-leader of the Drug Policy, Education, and Decriminalization Project.

Before law school, Ciara worked as an ERISA paralegal at a plaintiff-side firm and as a policy specialist for the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing. Ciara graduated with a B.A. in Government and Classics from Georgetown University.

Anisha Reddy joins FJWW as a Summer Law Clerk. She is a rising 2L at Stanford Law, where she is Managing Editor of the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and a co-director of the Workers’ Rights Pro Bono Project with Legal Aid at Work. Before law school, she graduated with a B.A. in Public Policy from Duke University and worked as a union organizer with AFSCME in Florida.

Feinberg, Jackson, Worthman & Wasow LLP has joined over 500 law firms in filing an amicus brief asking a federal judge to strike down President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting the law firm Perkins Coie LLP for its past work on voting rights lawsuits and its representation of the President’s prior political opponents.