Lawsuits are Creating Jobs... for Lawyers

California continues to see waves of employment litigation. Employees seem to have endless plaintiff potential as trial lawyers in the state keep assembling classes and bringing cases against businesses both large and small.  

Well, the proof is in the pudding on this trend. ABA Law Journal recently reported that law firms in California are hiring more employment law associates to “help defend companies seeing a spike in wage-and-hour and disability litigation.”

We’ve certainly commented on some of these cases – some of which are clearly instances of abuse – in the past. Law firms don’t expect the flood of employment lawsuits to go down any time soon.

Let’s just hope we don’t see more cases like the sweeping class action against Wal-Mart this year, which the Supreme Court thankfully denied ability to move forward.