In June 2026, DCWageLaw announced via PR Newswire that a federal court had awarded the firm $172,635.10 in attorneys’ fees and sanctions after rejecting — on every ground — an attempt by GardaWorld’s counsel to disqualify DCWageLaw from representing hundreds of D.C. security officers in consolidated wage-and-hour class actions:

“The integrity of our profession depends on ethics rules being honored as obligations, not deployed as weapons. This ruling reaffirms that those rules exist to protect clients and the courts — and that judges will enforce that boundary. We take no satisfaction in another firm’s sanction. We take great satisfaction in knowing our clients’ cases will now be heard, on the merits, with the counsel they chose.” — Jonathan Tucker, Attorney, DCWageLaw