Went to a lunch talk with an attorney from the Legal Aid Society - Employment Law Center in San Francisco today. She seemed like a terrific attorney and definitely inspired me to think more about the plaintiff's side option. My favorite story was one in which she had 79 very compelling plaintiffs, but was facing an argument from the other side that that the law prevented her from joining them all in a class action. So in response, she and the Employment Law Center filed 79 separate claims. She said there was a "crushing weight" in their office due to a lack of resources, but as soon as they filed the claims, opposing counsel turned around and said there was a "crushing weight" at their big corporate firm and changed their whole tune on the class action issue. Awesome. Just awesome.
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