DragonKnight
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Coli Attorneys, I Got Some Questions
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TheodoreBrehIII
Breh & Associates, LLC
Let Breh & Associates take it from here. We waive retainer fees for members longer than three years on here.
We got another one, but we won’t even mention it
Well then just tag nicole
Y’all nikkas ain’t no help
After consulting with the second attorney, I’m deciding to go to mediation without one. I’ll update this shyt by the end of the month. Hopefully it’s some good news
After consulting with the second attorney, I’m deciding to go to mediation without one. I’ll update this shyt by the end of the month. Hopefully it’s some good news
she gonna contact the company on the back end and work out an under the table deal if she makes sure your case tanks.I’m on payroll for another month or two, but I’m being laid off and aint been at work for a few weeks. They told me I could go home and still get paid. Probably cause I’m suing they ass
So I had an EEOC claim for discrimination in before they told me I could go home and my mediation date coming up near the end of the month.
I been doing my own research. Basically, what I found out was 99% of these cases get dismissed. BUT, it cost corporations like 75k-120k to fight it, even if it gets dismissed.
So I’m like shyt, I’m gon ask for 40k, with 30k being my low end.
Now I’m already getting 10k severance, but that don’t have shyt to do with the case. So my EEOC mediator called last week and said my company seeing if I want to end it before mediation and offered an extra 5k
I was like fukk no. Tell them hoe ass nikkas I’ll see them in court (mediation) But I was like let me call a lawyer.
I got a consultation with another one in a few hours. But the first one said yeah, most these cases do get dismissed, but I that I was right that it cost them like 75k. She said she does defense work and when they hire outside counsel her retainer fee is 50k. So she is confident that I can get 30k, and this is with her 30% contingency fee added in.
Now the questions I have are, why would this lady drop her contingency fee from 40% to 30%? Also, when I spoke to her receptionist she told me of two retainer fee options. But after speaking to the attorney, she said I wouldn’t have to pay a retainer fee and that she would work on contingency. Why would a lawyer do that?
Also, she obviously didn’t guarantee anything, but she seemed more confident than lawyers usually do. I’m my experience they usually make it a point to manage your expectations. This lady also was confident it would get settled in the first session.
Another thing I need to add is that my EEOC mediator recommend this attorney and the other one I’m going to see later. She told me she not supposed to recommend attorneys but those two were good cause she sees them all the time on her cases.
the mediators... attorneys and corp lawyers all know each other...
small field
Yeah I’m just gonna contact my mediator and make a counter offer and see how that goes. I don’t need an attorney to do that. Plus both attorneys I talked to verified my research was right that it cost companies about 75k minimum win or lose. So I can just negotiate this shyt myself
Jaylen Tatum
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Sounds too good to be true the mediator and attorney might be in cahoots
The attorney knows you can get more and wants a cut pretty much. But it’s always better to be represented by counsel. If the EEOC mediator knows that lawyer, so will the attorneys for your employer and they will know that she is competent. The lawyer is willing to work on contingency because they know this case will settle or that if they drive up the costs enough through discovery that the employer will settle. Let me put it like this, I’m a senior associate - it costs and employer like 700 to 800 dollars an hour for me to work on their case and like 1300 for the partner. You think they about to pay that for 100 hours of legal work?
Since my job already offered an extra 5k through the mediator, I’m thinking, what would it hurt me to call her and send a counter offer to them?
Then I would see how that went, and then decide if I should double back and grab an attorney. My mediation date is not till the last week of January. It seems like my company wants to wrap it up before that date, and I would too, if the price was right of course.
What’s do you think about that line of thinking?
I would do it with the attorney. I’m not familiar with what your claim is or what your state laws are, but use the attorney if you feel like you’re being low-balled. Also, you want the attorney ready for the case in case it goes to mediation. You have nothing to lose with the lawyer. The lawyer isn’t doing you a favor by taking the case. Contingency means she is incentivized to win.
Future mate is applying for law school.
Heard its miserable being in a relationship with somebody while their taking attorney courses.
Damn.
Cha ching nikka 
ill
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If she dropped her fee from 40% to 30% that implies she thinks she can win that case with high probability and it’s a low risk for her to take the case. imo
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