Overview
On June 18, 2014 at its annual Wiley A. Branton Awards Luncheon, the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs presented Williams & Connolly with a 2014 Outstanding Achievement Award in the area of Equal Employment Opportunity & Immigrant and Refugee Rights. Recognizing work performed by James Biermanand assisted by Thomas Hentoff, the Washington Lawyers’ Committee stated that: “Attorneys at Williams & Connolly secured an exceptional settlement for a Spanish-speaking client who was employed by a local restaurant and never paid for the time she worked. Making use of the newly amended wage theft laws in DC, which provide for quadruple damages for claims of non-payment of wages, the settlement amounted to more than three times the wages denied to the client.”