Golden Opportunity. (Law).Three attorneys from the AARP AARP, a nonprofit, nonpartisan national organization dedicated to "enriching the experience of aging"; membership is open to people age 50 or older. Founded in 1958 by Ethel Percy Andrus as American Association of Retired Persons, AARP now has over 30 million Foundation have joined a class action lawsuit class action lawsuit A lawsuit in which one party or a limited number of parties sue on behalf of a larger group to which the parties belong. For example, investors may bring a class action lawsuit against a brokerage firm that has actively promoted a tax filed by 51 television writers, aged 40 and up, against a number of major entertainment conglomerates. The suit, filed in October 2000 in Los Angeles Superior Court for age discrimination, claims the TV writers cannot find work because the entertainment companies favor younger employees. It's the third class action bias lawsuit the AARP Foundation attorneys have been involved in this year. The others were an employment case against Ford Motor Co. and an age discrimination case against Allstate Corp. "They're similar to those in that they're large in scope and magnitude ... and because of the severity of the case, we've decided to join in as co-counsel," said Suzanne Miller, spokeswoman for AARP in California. "But they're different in the fact that this is a very pervasive issue that affects many of the residents in Los Angeles and their families." The AARP attorneys, who are at AARP's headquarters in Washington, join Los Angeles-based law firm Schwartz Steinsapir Dohrmann & Sommers LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol , as well as Washington D.C. law firms Sprenger & Lang PLLC PLLC Professional Limited Liability Company PLLC Polk Life and Learning Center (Bartow, FL) PLLC Partners of Limited Liability Corporation and Kator Parks & Weiser PLLC. Defendants include NBC, CBS, Fox, Warner Bros. and the William Morris Agency Founded in 1898, the William Morris Agency is the largest diversified talent and literary agency in the world, with offices in New York City, Beverly Hills, Nashville, Miami, London, and Shanghai. Inc. |
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