Dismantling High-Frequency Filers: How AI Can Reshape Wage & Hour Litigation
In the 2024–2025 fiscal year, the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency (LWDA) received a staggering 8,846 PAGA notices. Just five law firms generated 24% of that volume. Boilerplate claims flooded the system. In response, the LWDA issued proposed regulations imposing rigid administrative hurdles and the risk of severe sanctions. Let’s be honest: manual compliance under these new PAGA 3.0 rules is now mathematically impossible. The data volume is too vast, and the deadlines are...