When the employment law knower logged on

As a coda to Paul’s highly satisfying three part series about getting a generous settlement from his employer due to the latter’s egregious misconduct, I will insolently observe that a certain friend of the blog decided to handicap Paul’s chances when the suit was filed. You will surely be surprised that his strong instinct was to side with bullies abusing formal institutional mechanisms to settle petty personal grudges:

I interrupt my blog hiatus to note this surprising development.  I have tried to avoid saying anything about Campos for many years now, but this seems worth remarking on, given how rare such suits are.  Campos’s self-serving explanation for the lawsuit is here, and the complaint itself is here…My guess is Campos’s attorneys are taking this case on contingency, hoping for a payout on the retaliation claim, given the weakness of the discrimination claim (more on that in a moment). 

Somebody more capable of something approaching impartial thought may have wished to consider what it meant about the strength of the case if a good lawyer was willing to take on expensive litigation against a deep-pocketed institution on a contingency basis. But anyway, speaking of petty personal grudges we’ll skip all the sweaty personal attacks expressed in wince-inducing prose and get right to the bottom line:

The bottom line is that the discrimination claims look weak at this stage, and the retaliation claim does not seem much stronger, but may be his better bet under the circumstances.

Maybe! Better luck at the track, son.