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i have i
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represent a number of companies where
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anytime you have employees these days
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you’re going to have employment issues
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whether those are family and medical
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leave acts age discrimination employment
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sex discrimination religious
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discrimination race discrimination
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wage and hour claims are very common
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fair labor standards act where
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somebody’s claiming they were entitled
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over time they weren’t paid i’ve handled
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all of those kinds of cases
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some of those cases are very difficult
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for employers because
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the employee can make a claim for a very
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small amount of money
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two thousand five thousand dollars but
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since they typically get filed in
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federal court
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and the attorney’s fees could be 50 000
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and you could have to pay the
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plaintiff’s lawyer 50 000 in legal fees
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you’re looking at a case where you have
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a hundred thousand in legal fee exposure
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even if 50 if you win and if you lose 2
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000
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or twenty five hundred to have a hundred
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thousand exposure those are the times
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you sit down the client and say
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we need to make an economic decision do
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you do that do you resolve this case
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do you make it go away now or do you
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start spending money on legal fees