re: #285 KGxvi

Having litigated a lot of cases, I hate to say it, but there is a great deal of truth to that. Plaintiff firms that run on contingency fees are often underfunded and overtaxed. The big defense have more resources than they know what to do with. Even someone like Hogan is not going to be able to afford two or three years of hourly billing of 10-15 hours a week at $300-500 an hour. So if you’re suing a big corporation, you’re likely going to lose or end up having to settle for nickles on the dollar of the true value of your case.

Which is why the recent Supreme Court cases that enable companies to enforce mediation/ADR over class actions harms small plaintiffs even more, since they’re not going to get the same level of being made whole as if under a class action suit. It’s yet another way that big companies have managed to insulate themselves from consequences of their own wrongdoing.