WHAT TO EXPECT IF YOU ARE FILING A CASE AGAINST YOUR EMPLOYER

A lot of wronged employees do not know what to expect when proceeding to file a lawsuit against their employer. If you have the right case, the Employment Lawyers Group, and a few other select California law firms can[1] get you a lot of money. Getting a lot of money usually takes a long time, lots of experienced, valid attorney work, and some work from the client. In the world of fast paced social media shorts and quick AI answers you may or may not be up for this. The Employment Lawyers Group is.

Let’s start with what does not happen in lawsuits against companies for wrongful termination, sexual harassment, unpaid wages, and jobs not held open when employees are on medical leaves.

Being a plaintiff in an employee lawsuit is not about:

Quick answers

Analysis done by a machine that is 100% accurate

Plugging your facts into an AI chat bot and getting a result

Timelines a non-experienced employee attorney understands

Easy legal analysis

Never facing the coworkers, supervisors, managers, and human resources personnel that caused the case in the first place

Clear goals, other than winning

Predictability of judges and juries

Fast resolutions

Knowing exactly what your case is worth ever, and certainly not before the evidence is in

Being able to accurately access your case based upon your side of the story and documents (if any) only

Being able to predict anything if the employer’s lawyer has not yet shown their stuff

Bottom line, if you want fast cash and plugged in formulas an employee lawsuit is not for you. We are just being brutally honest and setting the expectations. Yes, we routinely get clients big money. Those clients are deserving, let us do our job, and experienced wrongs the law actually provides relief for.

In the most cases, employees are not blacklisted for filing lawsuits. Most employees are able to emotionally handle the fact they have a lawsuit, and might have to face persons who did them wrong.

If you are ready to file a bigtime lawsuit against your employer call (805) 200-0100

*Past results are not a prediction nor guarantee of what will occur in your case

HOW LONG DO LABOR CASES TAKE IN CIVIL COURT?

Sometimes there are early mediations and cases resolve for large amounts in 6-9 months. More realistically, cases for loss of a job, sexual harassment, and major unpaid wages take one to two years in order to achieve the type of results our firm believes are best for the client. Employers do not get scared by demand letters, pay big money on demand letters, and are not overly eager to make early settlements for large amounts of money. Prelitigation settlements are ridiculous.

If the case has to be tried in arbitration or court it will take more than a year and a half to get done, and that is to your advantage. Given all of the deadlines imposed by controlling statutes, and the pre-trial work that has to be done, very few cases can be effectively proven in less than a year or a year and a half. In addition, courts and arbitrators have busy calendars and cannot get to a case for at least one year from the date it is filed. Anybody telling you otherwise lacks experience in employment law.

WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO IF YOU HIRE A LAWYER FOR A CASE AGAINST YOUR EMPLOYER

The best clients give their lawyers all of the documents their lawyers want, and answers their lawyers’ questions directly. Bad clients send AI generated emails, talk about things that don’t matter, and generally do not want to participate in the case. Participation means showing up when your lawyer takes depositions of the company’s witnesses. It also means responding to your lawyer in a timely manner, and providing meaningful feedback. Good clients do not perform their own misguided legal research, or try to steer their lawyer in directions that are irrelevant, possibly harmful, and simply don’t work.

What you have read in this article is consistent with a law group who has existed for many decades, actually won large amounts for clients, and dealt with a variety of different people over the years. All of the things you have read are consistent with achieving the highest level of representation and best chance of success on your case. As very experienced lawyers who have dealt with thousands of clients going through very hard economic and emotional times, we understand that everything does not always line up perfectly, and clients do not always have the time their lawyers wish they did. We are able to help even if you do not perfectly line up with the words in this article. We, however, wanted to provide realistic feedback to potential employees who want to sue.

The right legal team may enable better results. The right thinking and behaving client should enable the best results for the situation.

This article was written by Karl Gerber who has devoted his entire career to representing employees, since 1993.

[1] The right case not only means there is good liability, you are damaged, you and your lawyer do most of the things this article suggests, your judge and/or fact finder is not crazy, they like you, and your employer is collectible.