This story is for you if:
You handle wage and hour class action cases;
You run into the situation where there are multiple similar actions filed against the same defendant by different plaintiffs.
Settling class action cases is typically a distributive negotiation where there is a fixed pie that gets divided up. While there is some room for creativity, for the most part it is a zero sum game in which a litigant’s gain (or loss) is balanced by the losses (or gains) of the other litigants....