Lichten & Liss-Riordan, P.C. The Labor, Employment & Class Action Specialists
Lichten & Liss-Riordan, P.C. The Labor, Employment & Class Action Specialists
Welcome to Lichten & Liss-Riordan, P.C.
The Labor, Employment & Class Action Specialists

Lichten & Liss-Riordan, P.C. is a plaintiffs’-side employment and union-side labor law firm, whose attorneys have achieved national recognition for their work representing employees and unions in wage and hour, discrimination, and other employment-related litigation. We have tried many cases before juries and judges in federal and state courts, and we pride ourselves on our innovative and creative approaches to advancing workers’ rights.

Our attorneys have brought and won pioneering class action and individual litigation on behalf of tipped employees, employees who have been denied wages and overtime, employees who have been wrongfully misclassified or independent contractors, and employees who have been victims of discrimination, retaliation, and other forms of wrongful misconduct by their employer.

Our attorneys also have a long and proud history of representing private and public sector unions in all aspects of labor law, including arbitration, collective bargaining, and representation of unions before the National Labor Relations Board, the Massachusetts Labor Relations Commission, the Massachusetts Civil Service Commission, and state and federal courts. We represent numerous labor unions, including more than 40 locals of the Professional Fire Fighters of Massachusetts, the Boston Police Superior Officers Federation, and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (which represents Verizon workers).

Lichten & Liss-Riordan is a law firm exclusively devoted to the representation of employees and labor unions. We do not represent corporations, large or small; our mission is to advocate for the rights and interests of working people.

Announcements

A federal court has skycapscertified a national class of American Airlines skycaps for their claims that the airline improperly diverted their tip money by imposing a $2 per bag charge for curbside check-in. We won these claims at trial on behalf of nine Boston skycaps in 2008 (in a case that was affirmed by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court) and will now proceed on behalf of all American skycaps across the country who were affected by the $2 charge.

In the first case of its kind in Massachusetts, king_arthur we have obtained a court ruling that strippers were misclassified as independent contractors. The judge certified the case as a class action and ruled that the dancers were illegally deprived of wages and tips due to their misclassification. Click here to read about this case, and click here to read what the Boston Globe editorial page had to say.

HawaiiWe have filed the first cases ever brought in Hawaii to challenge the hotel industry’s practice of adding service charges to food and beverage bills but not distributing them to waitstaff. Our case against the Four Seasons Hotel has been certified to the Hawaii Supreme Court for a definitive legal ruling on the Hawaii service charge statute.

To read about our many successful tips cases, click here.
Massachusetts Independent Contractor In one of the first legal rulings interpreting the Massachusetts Independent Contractor statute, a Massachusetts state court has ruled that an oil delivery driver was an employee, not an independent contractor, and granted summary judgment to the plaintiff. To read about this case click here.
 


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