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Madison on why she quit (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When it comes to a worker and a multi-million dollar corporation, "let the lawyers sort it out" effectively means the same thing as "do nothing and let the corporation bury the worker in legal fees until they give up."

Not that speculating on Lemmy is really doing all that much, but if enough people start unsubscribing or saying they'll stop watching LTT over this, it creates an incentive for LTT to give her a better settlement.

Incidentally, shit like this is also another good reason to join or start a union.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're right but if she had anything concrete she still should have lawyered up.

Fuck in Canada they even have lawyers that'll take you on for free.

And I'm all for unions.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lawyers who work on contingency (no win - no fee) have a lot of caveats.

They usually work on easy, open and shut cases. The more likely they are to win the more likely they are to get paid.
They usually take a much bigger chunk of the plaintiff's winnings if they do win, so even a win is much less of a win than otherwise.
Even if they work for a larger firm, most lawyers who work on contingency don't have the resources, or can't justify using firm resources, on a risky case that entails a lot of work. This might result in incomplete discovery, or the other side buying a one-person operation in paper.
I mean this in the nicest possible way, and this is a generalization, but most lawyers choose not to work on contingency if they have other work. This often means (and of course there are exceptions) that contingency lawyers are not the cream of the crop, especially compared to whatever big firm lawyers a company can retain.