Final Thoughts
I recently read an article quoting a plaintiff’s lawyer who said that 80 percent of all employment claims filed in federal court were dismissed as being without merit. This certainly harmonizes with my experience and that of my firm. While this is good news, if true, the fact remains that time and expense was involved in ridding the courts of all those cases without merit. The bad news is that the plaintiff’s bar is now turning to the state courts for damages. State court judges, including appellate judges, do not have the advantage of the thirty years of litigation experienced by the federal courts, nor do state court judges have one or more graduate lawyers working as law clerks to help them research and write opinions. State ...
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