<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387417509863975346</id><updated>2011-04-21T13:33:20.223-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Erik Langeland, P.C.</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eriklangeland.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3387417509863975346/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eriklangeland.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Erik Langeland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04354911753387706855</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='22' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AevfRIaw8b8/SYxx1RnYTxI/AAAAAAAAAAM/6QqSGDEzEKY/S220/ErikLangeland-1.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387417509863975346.post-4213454422917178161</id><published>2008-12-12T05:02:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-05-27T13:04:08.304-07:00</updated><title type='text'>About Erik Langeland, P.C.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://s279.photobucket.com/albums/kk140/richter10point2/?action=view&amp;amp;current=ErikLangeland-1.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk140/richter10point2/ErikLangeland-1.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;var addthis_pub = "marjoryedewsnap";&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" onmouseover="return addthis_open(this, '', '[URL]', '[TITLE]')" onmouseout="addthis_close()" onclick="return addthis_sendto()"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/lg-share-en.gif" width="125" height="16" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/152/addthis_widget.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;About Erik H. Langeland, Esq.:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;Phone: (212) 354-6270&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;Address:  500 5th Ave., Suite 1610, New York City, NY, 10110&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p  style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica; color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px ;color:#000000;"&gt;E-Mail: &lt;a href="mailto:eriklangeland1@gmail.com"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;eriklangeland1@gmail.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p  style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica; color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px ;color:#000000;"&gt;Websites:  &lt;a href="http://www.langelandlaw.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;http://www.langelandlaw.com &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.otwage.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;  http://www.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px color:#000000;"&gt;otwage&lt;a href="http://www.otwage.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px ;color:#000000;"&gt;/   &lt;a href="http://www.otwages.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;http://www.otwages.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica; min-height: 12.0px"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;Erik Langeland, P.C. is a boutique litigation firm founded to recover unpaid overtime and minimum wages for employees. To date, we have recovered millions of dollars of back wages for our clients. We are skilled and experienced in all aspects of complex litigation. No employer is too big for us - we have brought cases against some of the largest institutions in the country.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica; min-height: 12.0px"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt; Employers will pay their employees as little as possible. Often, they violate the law when the do so. Common violations include:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;Failing to pay employees for all hours worked- in other words, requiring employees to work "off the clock"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;Failing to pay for pre-shift and post-shift work&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;Failure to pay for travel time&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;Misclassifying employees as "exempt" from overtime&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;Misclassifying employees as "independent contractors"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;Taking improper deductions from pay&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;Failing to keep the requires records of the employees hours worked&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;Violating minimum wage requirements&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;Sharing in tips ("tip sharing" or "tip pooling")&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;Employees in the following professions often have been subject to violations of overtime and minimum wage laws:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;Commissioned sales people&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;Call Center employees&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;Restaurant workers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;Security Guards&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica; min-height: 12.0px"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;We currently have cases against:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;IBM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;Wells Fargo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;Wachovia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;Prudential&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;Lend America (Also known as Ideal Mortgage)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;Concord Mortgage&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;Top Dot Mortgage&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 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