Deterministic wage-and-hour reconstruction for management-side defense counsel. Every employee, every pay period, with provenance back to the source row.
Book a 20-minute call01 / Source records
02 / Reconstruction
Every employee.
Every pay period.
Source row and applied rule
03 / Work product
Timecards, pay registers, badge records, and wage statements tell different parts of the story. A PAGA notice, class or collective action, or demand letter requires a reconstruction across years of source data.
Sampling and extrapolation produce an estimate. Reconstruction follows the full employee population, pay period by pay period, back to the underlying records.
Rebuilding the data is not the defense strategy. Counsel needs record-based figures to evaluate the matter, without diverting associate hours into manual reconstruction.
These allegations can frame counsel's damages and exposure analysis. They are questions to evaluate against the records, not assumed findings.
Counsel determines the applicable legal standards. Classification and policy issues require legal assessment alongside record-based calculations.
An employee-by-pay-period matrix and two separate monetary figures, built from the same source records.
A structured employee-by-pay-period matrix of identified violations. Each finding ties to the source record and the applied rule.
Illustrative structure only. No client data or calculated amounts.
| Employee | Pay period | Rule | Source row | Figure |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| E-001 | Period A | Rule A | PR-1042 | Not shown |
| E-001 | Period A | Rule B | TR-5587 | Not shown |
| E-002 | Period B | Rule A | PR-3301 | Not shown |
| E-003 | Period B | Rule B | TR-7710 | Not shown |
| E-004 | Period C | Rule A | PR-6654 | Not shown |
A quantified amount for counsel's cure analysis, calculated from the reconstructed records.
Counsel determines the applicable cure requirements. A calculation alone does not complete a statutory cure.
A record-based measure of wage-and-hour exposure to support counsel's economic damages calculations and evaluation of the matter.
Separate from the cure figure, with an audit trail to each source row and applied rule.
Counsel sets the scope. We work from the dispute documents and the employer's timecards, pay registers, badge data, and wage statements to reconstruct the underlying time and pay record.
We reconstruct the full employee population, punch by punch and pay period by pay period. The math is deterministic and reproducible. The same source records and rules produce the same figures.
Counsel receives structured work product: the violation matrix, cure figure, and exposure figure. Every dollar has a reviewable path back to the source row and the rule that produced it.
Every punch across the full employee population, pay period by pay period. The records are reconstructed, rather than sampled and extrapolated.
A row-level audit trail connects each figure to the source record and the applied rule. Counsel can review the calculation, not just the total.
A defensible figure within the window counsel is working to, including applicable PAGA deadlines.
You refer us to your client. The employer pays for the reconstruction. We work under your direction, and you keep the client relationship.
Tally & Trace is not a law firm. We do not provide legal advice or handle privileged communications. Our role is to reconstruct the records and give counsel the math behind each figure.
A short call about our method, our work product, and our role under your direction. No pitch. No obligation.
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