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Kevin Barnes is a former Deputy District Attorney who opened his own office in 1997. Since that time, he has been almost exclusively representing employees in wage and hour class action cases in California. Mr. Barnes was one of the original Plaintiff's attorneys in California to begin pursing wage and hour class action litigation on behalf of employees.
Mr. Barnes was selected as one of the Top 10 Plaintiff Employment Lawyers in 2008 by the Daily Journal, as well as being selected as a Southern California Super Lawyer in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 in Employment and Labor. This recognition is a selection by his peers based upon ethics, experience and reputation and represents the top 5% of his profession. Mr. Barnes is also AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell, the highest possible rating for a lawyer. Mr. Barnes has been invited, on numerous occasions, to speak on class action and wage and hour employment issues. He has spoken at seminars put on by the Labor Employment Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, various labor law associations, seminars for mediators, Nuts & Bolts seminars for new lawyers and was a guest speaker on Champions Of Justice.
Furthermore, Mr. Barnes, with co-counsel Joseph Antonelli, tried one of the only wage and hour class action case tried in Los Angeles County Superior Court in a case entitled Mutuc v. Huntington Memorial Hospital, LASC Case No. BC288727. On September 14, 2007, Judge William A. MacLaughlin issued a Statement of Decision and a Supplemental Statement of Decision on January 5, 2008, awarding the class members restitution in the amount of $32,857,014.83. This was the 14th largest verdict in 2008 as reported by the Daily Journal and the 2nd largest Labor and Employment verdict for that year. The case thereafter settled in 2008 for $60 million dollars lump sum payout. This was a seminal and precedent setting case dealing with hospitals' dual pay rate plans which was closely followed by hospitals nationwide and which affects the entire hospital industry.
As a result of the Huntington Memorial Hospital verdict and settlement, Mr. Barnes and his co- counsel Mr. Antonelli settled a similar dual pay plan hospital case against Tenet Hospitals in the amount of $85 million dollars and one against Arcadia Methodist Hospital in the amount of $20,250,000.
In August 2008, Mr. Barnes tried a wage and hour case entitled Solis v. World Wide Attorney Service, Inc., OSCS Case No. NO 03CC000069. These are two of only a small number of wage and hour class action cases ever tried in the State of California.
Mr. Barnes has settled several hundred million dollars of wage and hour class action cases. In 2008 alone, he settled the following cases:
Based on the selection as a top lawyer by his peers, based upon his ethics, experience and reputation, as well as having tried two class action wage and hour cases, including the landmark Huntington Memorial Hospital verdict and settlement, Mr. Barnes should be recognized as one of California's top 100 lawyers.
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