Cole & Van Note

Employment and Consumer Class Action Champions

We set the record for the highest settlement in history for a meal break violation of its kind, the highest rest break judgment of its kind and collected for our clients over one billion dollars for these and other violations.

Since its inception in 1992, Scott Cole & Associates ("SCA") has litigated countless matters against businesses of all types, and in nearly every industry imaginable. Our skilled team members possess extensive experience prosecuting class/complex actions, both in a sole counsel capacity and in leadership positions, oftentimes among numerous firms. We engage in California and nation-wide litigation, publish important articles addressing myriad substantive issues as well as those concerning class action litigation procedures, speak regularly at professional conferences and public events, serve as consulting class action experts, and are extremely well-known and widely-respected members of the legal community. For well over two decades, the firm has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for hundreds of thousands of workers and consumers, led record-setting resolutions and corrected numerous unlawful employment and consumer fraud practices. Some of the more common issues we tackle include:

Discrimination/Harassment
Expense Reimbursements
Fraud/False Advertising

Meal/Rest Breaks/Periods
Minimum Wages
Off-The-Clock Work

Overtime Pay
Protected Activities
Wrongful Termination

Locations	No. of Attorneys
Oakland, CA	2