Tim Shea serves workers as a labor and employment attorney. A passionate advocate for civil rights and social justice, he is committed to vindicating workers’ rights, holding employers accountable, and furthering workers’ interests in the broader labor movement.

In law school, Tim served as editor-in-chief of the Northeastern University Law Review, which centered on the public interest and the practical application of law with a mission of amplifying historically marginalized voices. During that time, he was also as a judicial intern for the Honorable Donald L. Cabell of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts as well as a law clerk for multiple labor and employment firms in the Boston area. Prior to law school, Tim was a writer and editor at the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession and a program officer at the United States Department of State.

Education

Northeastern University School of Law, J.D., 2024

University of Massachusetts Amherst, B.A. in Political Science with departmental honors, magna cum laude and B.A. in Philosophy, magna cum laude, 2013

Bar and Court Admissions

Member, State Bar of Massachusetts, 2024

Morine Mitchell is an employment attorney dedicated to protecting employees and addressing systemic injustices. Prior to joining Lichten & Liss-Riordan, Morine clerked for the Honorable Kimberly Mueller of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, the Honorable Melissa Long of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, and the Honorable Lara Montecalvo of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

During her time at Boston University School of Law, Morine cultivated her expertise in various employment and labor issues. She represented clients as a student attorney in the Employment Rights Clinic where she focused on matters of discrimination and denials of unemployment benefits. She also externed in the Fair Labor Division of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office; there she worked on cases of wage theft and misclassification of employees as independent contractors. She spent her summers serving as an intern to the Honorable Neile Eisner, an Administrative Law Judge at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Honorable O. Rogeriee Thompson of the U.S. Court of appeals for the First Circuit.

Education

Boston University Law School, J.D., 2020
Suffolk University, B.A., magna cum laude, 2016

Bar and Court Admissions

Member, State Bar of Massachusetts, 2021

Trevor Byrne is a civil rights and employment attorney who is passionate about vindicating workers’ rights. He represents employees facing a broad range of issues in the workplace, including independent contractor misclassification, wage theft, and discrimination.

Prior to and during law school, Trevor supported civil rights litigation at several prominent nonprofits and plaintiffs’ firms. He also helped clients defend against evictions, obtain post-conviction relief, and secure Social Security benefits through his work with the Stanford Community Law Clinic. After law school, Trevor clerked for the Honorable Carolyn Dineen King of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Education

Stanford Law School, J.D., 2023
Harvard University, A.B., magna cum laude, 2018

Bar and Court Admissions

Member, State Bar of Massachusetts, 2023

Admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Jeremy E. Abay, a partner at Lichten & Liss-Riordan P.C., represents whistleblowers, workers, consumers, and other plaintiffs in high-stakes litigation in state and federal courts.  His practice covers healthcare fraud (qui tam), wage litigation, and consumer fraud. He has obtained multimillion-dollar settlements for taxpayers, misclassified workers, and victims of consumer fraud.

 Mr. Abay has served as lead counsel in several groundbreaking cases alleging the misclassification of employees as independent contractors. In fact, he served as trial counsel in the first worker misclassification case against a gig-economy company to reach a federal jury trial. By obtaining precedential appellate court opinions, Mr. Abay has helped reshape the law towards protecting low wage workers.

Mr. Abay has also pioneered False Claims Act liability based on Medicare and Medicaid secondary payer violations. He brought the first qui tam case to successfully argue that an auto insurer could be liable under the False Claims Act for causing Medicare and Medicaid to pay claims before no-fault insurance. After the government declined to intervene, Mr. Abay reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with the auto insurer.

Mr. Abay has been recognized as a Pennsylvania Rising Star in Class Action Litigation by Super Lawyers. He is also a member of The Legal Intelligencer’s Young Lawyer Editorial Board. As a member of New Jersey’s District IV Ethics Committee, Mr. Abay is also responsible for investigating and prosecuting attorney ethics violations in Camden County. 

 Mr. Abay is also an adjunct professor at Rutgers Law School, where he teaches Whistleblower Advocacy and Deposition Advocacy. He has also guest lectured in the business torts seminar. Before his legal career, Mr. Abay worked at Johnson & Johnson and Barclay’s Capital, where he gained unique insight into corporate compliance programs.

 Mr. Abay earned his J.D. from Rutgers School of Law as a merit-based scholarship recipient. During law school, he served as research assistant to former Associate Dean Adam Scales, analyzing emerging trends in tort theory and insurance law. He received the Don F. D’Aqui Esquire Memorial Award at graduation for achieving the highest average in and displaying the greatest aptitude for tort law.

SAMPLE CASEWORK

Razak v. Uber Techs., Inc., 951 F.3d 137 (3d Cir. 2020) (ongoing representation of UberBLACK drivers for wage violations, leading to the first circuit court ruling that gig-economy drivers could be employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act).

Schofield v. Delilah’s Den of Philadelphia, Inc., No. 01-15-0003-4601 (AAA) (successfully argued for class treatment in arbitration, resulting in a $2 million settlement with a nightclub accused of misclassifying dancers as independent contractors).

Moon v. Breathless, 868 F.3d 209 (3d Cir. 2017) (successfully argued that an arbitration clause in an independent contractor agreement did not cover statutory wage claims).

United States ex rel. Negron v. Progressive Cas. Ins. Co., No. 14-577 (D.N.J.) (represented the whistleblower in the first case to impose FCA liability on an auto insurer for causing healthcare providers to bill Medicare and Medicaid as the primary payer, leading to a $2.4 million settlement).

United States ex rel. Joseph Perri v. Novartis Pharms. Corp., No. 15-6547 (D.N.J.) (represented former account director in whistleblower retaliation lawsuit claiming that pharmaceutical manufacturer had offered illegal discounts to PBMs to induce Medicare business).

United States ex rel. Mbabazi v. Walgreen Co., No. 19-219 (E.D. Pa.) (represented whistleblowers in qui tam action against a retail pharmacy that systematically billed Pennsylvania Medicaid without first investigating and utilizing other available insurance coverages).

United States ex rel. Jersey Strong Pediatrics, LLC v. Wanaque Convalescent Ctr., No. 14-6651, (D.N.J.) (represented whistleblower in qui tam action alleging that a skilled nursing facility systematically violated Medicaid regulations, resulting in a successful settlement).

Ashesh Shah, et al. v. New Jersey Transit Corp., et al., No. SOM-L-000135-23 (N.J. Superior Court) (ongoing representation of putative class action involving residents and businesses whose property was destroyed by flooding caused by a disabled NJ Transit train during Hurricane Ida).

Lopez-Negron v. Progressive Cas. Ins. Co., No. A-3590-17T2 (N.J. App. Div. 2019) (represented class of policyholders in first class action to allege that an auto insurer acted in bad faith by requiring the use of Medicare and Medicaid benefits before no-fault benefits, leading to a $3.7 million settlement).

In re: Taxicab Medallion Loan Case Management Program, (Phila. Cnty. C.C.P.) (after lenders called in hundreds of loans secured by taxi medallions, helped to persuade the court to create a diversion program, leading to the cancellation of over $6.5 million in disputed debt).

IntelliSystem, LLC v. McHenry, No. 19-1359 (E.D. Pa.) (After defeating RICO claims against a lawyer and medical device distributor, obtained an award of attorney’s fees and costs).

PUBLICATIONS

Unmasking the Power of the Anti-Fraud Injunction Statute, THE CHAMPION MAGAZINE, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (2024).

Cigna’s Spin on High Court Ruling Ends with $172 Million Settlement, TURNING SQUARE CORNERS, Federal Bar Association Qui Tam Section (Winter 2024).

Simon Says Protect My Reputation: Understanding Pennsylvania’s Constitutional Right To Reputation, PENNSYLVANIA BAR ASSOCIATION QUARTERLY, Vol. XCIV, No. 2 (2023).

Let the Record Reflect, There Are No ‘Usual Stipulations’, LEGAL INTELLIGENCER (Feb. 22 2023).

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

Reputation Rights and Grand Juries, PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS, 2023 WHITE COLLAR SEMINAR (Nov. 2023, upcoming).

The False Claims Act and Dealing with Whistleblowers, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, LEVIN COLLEGE OF LAW (Aug. 2022).

The False Claims Act and Dealing with Whistleblowers, SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, U.S. HEALTHCARE COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM (June 2022).

Uber & Lyft: Where Are We Going, PENNSYLVANIA BAR INSTITUTE (Dec. 2017).

EDUCATION

Rutgers School of Law – Camden, J.D., 2013
Rutgers University – New Brunswick, B.A., 2009

BAR AND COURT ADMISSIONS

Member, State Bar of New Jersey, 2013
Member, State Bar of Pennsylvania, 2013
Member, State Bar of New York, 2019

Admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Third Circuit, and the U.S. District Courts for the District of New Jersey, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and Middle District of Pennsylvania.

Jack Bartholet is a passionate civil rights and labor attorney with a zeal for legal advocacy and a deep-rooted commitment to justice. He represents a diverse array of clients in state and federal courts and is involved in a number of complex class and collective actions on behalf of workers suing large, multinational corporations.

During law school, Jack externed for the Hon. Morgan Christen on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and wrote for OnLabor, a leading labor law blog. He also wrote an unpublished book on the history and meaning of the Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution for academic credit. Jack spent his summers working for the Rhode Island Attorney General’s Office, where he worked closely with the Civil Rights Prosecution, Policy, and Criminal Appellate units to develop policies and advance cases safeguarding civil liberties, as well as for a respected social and economic justice-oriented firm, where he worked on substantial and complex appellate litigation and labor arbitrations.

Prior to law school, Jack taught English and U.S. History at a large, public high school in Massachusetts. There, he was deeply involved with his local teachers’ union and was elected to serve on the statewide Board of Directors for the Massachusetts Teachers’ Association. Prior to that, Jack served as the Executive President of the Maryland Higher Education Commission’s Student Advisory Council, Executive President of Johns Hopkins University’s student government, and editor-in-chief of the university’s student newspaper.

EDUCATION

Harvard Law School, J.D., cum laude, 2023
Johns Hopkins University, B.A. in Political Science, with honors, 2016

BAR AND COURT ADMISSIONS

Member, State Bar of Massachusetts, 2023

Admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First and Second Circuits.

Bradley Manewith is a partner with Lichten & Liss-Riordan, P.C.  Brad has focused his career on representing workers who have been mistreated by their employers. He has extensive experience litigating and negotiating wage and hour claims on behalf of classes of employees. Brad also regularly represents individuals with issues related to unpaid commissions and other compensation, the Family and Medical Leave Act, and workplace discrimination.

Brad has represented employees in wide variety of industries, including delivery drivers, restaurant workers, food manufacturers, and exotic dancers. He has obtained class certification and summary judgment on behalf of his clients, and he has been involved in multiple successful landmark appellate cases. Brad has recovered millions of dollars for the workers he has represented.

Brad is recognized by his peers and opponents as a highly knowledgeable and effective employment law litigator. He has been named a “Super Lawyer” for employment litigation by Illinois Super Lawyers since 2019, and was recognized as a “Rising Star”  from 2013 until 2018.  He has also been named “Leading Lawyer.”  Brad currently serves as a member of the Executive Board for the Illinois Chapter of the National Employment Lawyers Association.

Prior to joining Lichten & Liss-Riordan, P.C., Brad was a partner at a Chicago-based plaintiff employment law firm.

Education

University of Illinois, College of Law, J.D., cum laude
University of Illinois, B.A. in political science; B.A. in History

Bar and court admissions

Member, State Bar of Illinois, 2003
Member of the Trial Bar for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, 2013

Admitted to practice before the Illinois Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and U.S. District Courts for the Northern District of Illinois and the Central District of Illinois.

Matt is an employee- and union-side labor and employment lawyer who represents workers in wage and hour litigation, independent contractor misclassification actions, discrimination claims, and labor disputes. Matt has represented ride share and delivery drivers, construction laborers, grocery store workers, exotic dancers, and tech workers in class and individual actions against major corporations and other employers.

Prior to joining Lichten & Liss-Riordan, P.C., Matt practiced litigation and employment law at a major international law firm.

During law school, Matt was a research assistant at Harvard’s Labor and Worklife Program, where he worked on the Clean Slate for Worker Power project, and a regular contributor to OnLabor.org. He also represented refugee claimants in Massachusetts and at the Texas-Mexico border as a student attorney at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic and served as Co-Director of the International Refugee Assistance Project.

Education

Harvard Law School, J.D., cum laude
New York University, M.A. Near Eastern Studies
McGill University, B.A. Middle East Studies, Dean’s Honor List; First Class Honors

BAR AND COURT ADMISSIONS

Member, State Bar of Massachusetts, 2019

Member, Law Society of Ontario, 2023

Admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts and the U.S. Court of Appeal for the First Circuit

Krysten Connon is an experienced and dedicated attorney. She represents workers in disputes against their employers and primarily concentrates her practice on wage and hour class and collective actions arising under the Fair Labor Standards Act and state laws. Krysten has represented workers from a variety of backgrounds and in various industries, including cable and satellite installers, delivery drivers, and nurses.

Krysten graduated summa cum laude from the Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law, and she is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Maryland. Following law school, Krysten served as a federal judicial law clerk before joining the commercial litigation department of a national law firm, where she represented clients in complex commercial litigation and arbitration matters. Krysten also worked as a Staff Attorney at Women Against Abuse, where she litigated cases originating as domestic violence matters. Prior to joining Lichten & Liss-Riordan, Krysten worked as an attorney in the employment rights group of a plaintiff-side class action law firm.

Additionally, Krysten co-authored the 2015 Oxford University Press book, Living in the Crosshairs: The Untold Stories of Anti-Abortion Terrorism, which presents the results of extensive interviews with abortion providers around the intersections of law, policy, and anti-abortion violence. She regularly volunteers her time and expertise on issues related to reproductive health, rights, and justice.

Krysten was named a Pennsylvania Rising Star in 2020 and 2021 by Thomson Reuters’ Super Lawyers. .

EDUCATION

Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law, JD, summa cum laude, 2012
University of Maryland – College Park, cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 2009

BAR AND COURT ADMISSIONS

Member, State Bar of New Jersey, 2013
Member, State Bar of Pennsylvania, 2013

Admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court of New Jersey, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Biography

Sarah R. Schalman-Bergen is a partner at Lichten & Liss-Riordan P.C., who has dedicated her career to creating systemic change for workers and individuals who are not being treated fairly. She has secured numerous significant settlements for the workers she represents, totaling well over $100 million.

While representing workers in all types of industries, Sarah has successfully challenged unlawful business practices involving last-mile logistics companies, cable installation companies, home health aide companies, meat and poultry plants, landscaping companies, in white collar jobs, and in the government. This litigation has resulted both in payment of back wages and in practice changes by the companies.

Sarah also represents clients in antitrust cases involving labor markets. For example, she has prosecuted challenges to “no poach” agreements that allegedly suppressed employees’ wages, and she has defended clients against antitrust claims brought to impede their rights to organize for better working conditions. Sarah also represented the City of Philadelphia against a major bank for allegedly discriminatory practices, in violation of the Fair Housing Act.

Sarah works in partnership and routinely co-counsels with public interest law firms to lend expertise to their mission in litigation. She has served as volunteer of counsel to the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania for more than a decade, litigating discrimination and HIV-confidentiality cases. Sarah was honored for this work as an “Unsung Hero” by the Legal Intelligencer, Pennsylvania’s daily law journal.

Sarah conducts her practice according to the highest ethical standards, and has received high judicial praise, including being described as “ethical, talented, and motivated to help hard working men and women” and “some of the finest legal representation in the nation.”

Sarah routinely speaks at conferences on issues relating to workers’ rights. She currently serves on Cornell’s ILR-Hotel School CIHLER Advisory Board, and is a Board Member of the Keystone Research Center. Sarah was named a 2020 Pennsylvania Super Lawyer, after being named as a Rising Star in every year over the prior decade. In 2021, she was named in Best Lawyers in America. In 2015, she was honored as a “Lawyer on the Fast Track” by The Legal Intelligencer.

Prior to joining the Firm, Sarah was a partner at a plaintiff-side class action law firm, where she served as co-chair of the firm’s employment rights practice group. She has also practiced in the litigation department at a large Philadelphia firm, where she represented clients in a variety of industries in complex commercial litigation. Sarah received her J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School and her B.A. summa cum laude from Tufts University.

PROMINENT JUDGMENTS AND SETTLEMENTS

Hickman v. TL Transportation, LLC, Amazon.com, et al., No. 2:17-cv-01038-GAM; 317 F. Supp. 3d 890; 318 F. Supp. 3d 718 (E.D. Pa. 2020) ($1.8m settlement on behalf of Delivery Associates in wage claim against third party company of Amazon; favorable opinions on liability, personal jurisdiction, individual liability, and conditional certification)

Merino v. Wells Fargo & Co., 2:16-cv-07840-ES-MAH (D.N.J. 2020) (co-lead counsel in $35 million wage and hour settlement on behalf of personal bankers)

Holbert v. Waste Management, Inc., No. 2:18-cv-02649-CMR (E.D. Pa. 2019) (lead counsel in $14.7 million FLSA nationwide settlement on behalf of 31,000 waste collectors)

Nicks v. Koch Meat Co., Inc., No. 16-cv-6446; 2016 WL 6277489; 260 F. Supp. 3d 942; 265 F. Supp. 3d 841 (N.D. Ill. 2019) ($1,832,000 settlement on behalf of chicken catchers in wage claim against national integrated poultry processor; favorable opinions on jurisdiction, corporate entity structure, certification)

City of Philadelphia v. Wells Fargo & Co., 2:17-cv-02203-AB, 2018 WL 424451 (E.D. Pa. 2019) (represented City of Philadelphia in Fair Housing Act litigation resolved for $10 million and injunctive relief for sustainable housing-related programs to promote and preserve homeownership for low- and moderate-income residents.)

Smith v. Allegheny Technologies, Inc., 754 Fed. Appx. 136 (3d Cir. 2018) (allegations by temporary workers hired to cross picket line and work in steel plant during lockout of union workers were sufficient to state claim for travel time compensation under Pennsylvania law)

Beckett v. Aetna, Inc., 2:17-cv-03864 (E.D. Pa. 2018) (Co-lead counsel with AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania and Legal Action Center in $17 million settlement for the largest HIV confidentiality breach in U.S. on behalf of 12,000 class members)

The Broadway League v. Bernard Telsey Casting, Inc., Internat’l Brotherhood of Teamsters Theatrical Drivers and Helpers Local 817, et al., No. 1:17-cv-9515 (S.D.N.Y. 2018) (defended casting directors and union in antitrust action challenging lawfulness of organizing activity)

Smith v. Milton Hershey School, No. 11-7391, 2012 WL 1966125 (E.D. Pa. 2012) ($730,000 and injunctive relief settlement on behalf of 13 year old student alleged to have been refused enrollment in school because of his HIV status)

Canal Side Care Manor, LLC v. Pa. H.R.C., 30 A.3d 568 (Commw. Ct. 2011) (affirming $55,000 trial award on behalf of HIV positive woman denied housing at personal care home)

TIAA-CREF v. Bernardo, 683 F. Supp. 2d 344 (E.D. Pa. 2010) (summary judgment in declaratory judgment action to award retirement benefits to domestic partner of deceased doctor)

EDUCATION

Harvard Law School, J.D., cum laude, 2007
Tufts University, B.A., summa cum laude, 2001

BAR AND COURT ADMISSIONS

Member, Bar of Pennsylvania, 2007

Admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third, Fourth, Sixth, Eighth and Ninth Circuits; U.S. District Courts for the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of Pennsylvania, District of Colorado, Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas, Northern District of New York, Northern District of Illinois, Southern District of Indiana, Northern District of Ohio, Eastern District of Michigan, Western District of Tennessee, Southern and Eastern District of Texas, District of Nebraska; and U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.