So... thanks for the advice and info. Good to get practical knowledge out there.
That said:
that same law says you can get attorneys’ fees too, the company knows that they could be facing a 50k+ judgment at the end (almost entirely comprising attorneys’ fees), and then that often incentivizes earlier, higher settlements.
This is awful, in my opinion. We really should consider redesigning our legal systems once every century or so. This sort of thing is a result of lawyers making their own rules for too long.
That said:
that same law says you can get attorneys’ fees too, the company knows that they could be facing a 50k+ judgment at the end (almost entirely comprising attorneys’ fees), and then that often incentivizes earlier, higher settlements.
This is awful, in my opinion. We really should consider redesigning our legal systems once every century or so. This sort of thing is a result of lawyers making their own rules for too long.