Pride and Institutional Arrogance-The Enemy of the Litigant.
By Mark A. Johnson, Esq. California criminal defense, employment and civil rights attorney.
Offices in Palmdale, Oxnard, Rancho Cucamonga and Temecula, California.
History teaches us that it tends to repeat and we often do not learn from the lessons history has to teach us.
As an attorney who handles a number of employment & civil rights cases, usually representing the employee, and contentious family law matters, I find I am often up against organizations and people who fail to learn from costly lessons of the past relative to its treatment of employees and people followed by arrogance that the organization did nothing wrong or will prevail. In these types of cases I have to batten down for the long haul but inevitably, individuals within the organization just cant help themselves and leave a wonderful trail of evidence that helps my client prevail in the end. I am amused at the cat-and-mouse game as the litigation unfolds and never cease to be amazed at the lack of responsibility organizations take from the beginning of a case. Quite often my client is only looking for a change in the manner he or she is treated but hit a brick wall in the process of seeking improved working conditions and sometimes have the attention focused on the employee, leaving the individual with no other option but the challenge the organization through litigation.
