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Total Credits: 1 VA General
This continuing legal education course is designed to equip legal professionals with the essential skills needed to efficiently calculate wage damages using Excel. Whether you're preparing for a case evaluation, demand letter, or Rule 26 disclosure, mastering Excel can significantly enhance your ability to manage wage cases. The course will cover the basics of setting up a damages spreadsheet, applying formulas to calculate regular and overtime rates, and handling more complex scenarios such as spread-of-hours and weighted averages. Participants will learn through practical examples and hands-on exercises that demonstrate how to automate calculations and streamline their workflow.
Learning Objectives:
1. Set up an Excel spreadsheet tailored to wage damages cases, including organizing data for multiple plaintiffs.
2. Apply basic Excel formulas to calculate regular rates, overtime rates, and other wage components.
3. Use Excel to handle advanced wage calculation scenarios, such as spread-of-hours and weighted averages.
4. Automate repetitive tasks in Excel to increase efficiency during litigation.
5. Understand and apply the "midpoint theory" for calculating interest on wage damages.
6. Link Excel sheets and cells to facilitate quick data manipulation and scenario analysis.
Credit Type: General
Credit Amount: 1
Course Type: Live Webcast Rebroadcast
Course Expiration:
Status: Not Approved
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Michael R. Minkoff is a Partner in Stevenson Marino LLPs employment practice. He advocates for workers cheated out of wages, combats workplace discrimination and harassment, and protects whistleblowers. With experience as lead counsel in over 200 cases, Michael has been appointed class counsel in unpaid wage actions across various industries. Before joining the firm, he worked for plaintiffs’ rights law firms and clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. Admitted in New York and New Jersey, Michael earned his J.D. from The George Washington University Law School, cum laude, and his B.A. from Boston College, summa cum laude.
