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what makes us different is that this is
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what we do I mean we represent employees
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that’s 95% of our clients I’ve been
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working on employment cases since I was
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in school starting in 1993 I’ve been
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representing him as a lawyer since 1995
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I’ve had my own practice representing
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employees since 2005 the associate
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attorneys who work for our firm came
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here to represent employees this is the
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vast majority of the work that we do in
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hiring an employment attorney
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particularly on the individual side what
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we sometimes call the plaintiff side an
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individual should look for someone with
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expertise in that particular area of law
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and on that particular side of it as one
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friend once put it to me
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you can’t dab in representing employees
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I’ve been representing employees since I
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was in law school starting in 1993 I’ve
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been doing it as lawyer since 95 I’ve
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been doing it in my own firm since 2005
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and the lawyers who work with me here
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that’s what they do – that’s why they’re
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here 95% of our clients are individuals
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with employment disputes you should look
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for expertise the second thing that the
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individual should look for is an
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attorney who believes in the case there
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are a lot of lawyers who will tell you
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know just about anything you want to
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hear for an hourly rate we don’t do that
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we take our employment cases on behalf
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of individuals on a percentage basis a
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lot of clients will say to me do you
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think we’re going to be successful and I
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say to them look we believe in these
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cases we like these cases we like
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working for individuals but we wouldn’t
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have taken this case on if we didn’t
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think we were probably going to be
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successful because for us it’s got to be
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something we believe in but we also have
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to know that there’s a good chance of
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success
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because if there isn’t we risk not
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getting paid at all and so when looking
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for somebody to do a case like this find
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someone who believes in it not just
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because they tell you so but because
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they’re putting their money where their
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mouth is