Atlantic magazine has an article on a professor to whom the University of Illinois revoked a job offer back in August 2014. A linked-to piece says that the employer spent roughly $850,000 in legal fees and paid $275,000 in legal fees to the plaintiff (plus $600,000 in damages). Unlike in the Ellen Pao case, the lawyers didn’t have to sift through years of work-related documents because the plaintiff had never started work.
Thus, even if the employer had beaten the rap it would have been out at least $2-3 million by the time a trial rolled around.
Related:
- a detailed report from a committee, which includes an offer of tenure and an $85,000 salary for nine months of work. [How does this compare to the revenue from a one-night sexual encounter in Chicago? The tenured faculty salary is $59,922/year after taxes (ADP), an amount that could be obtained through the Illinois child support system by suing a co-parent earning $299,610 after tax or by suing two co-parents each of whom earned $149,805 after tax.]
Good. He deserves every penny.
Yesterday I recommended sharpening the knives for the the medico-Pharma aristocracy.
This article makes plain who the tumbrels are also needed for.
Like any other out if control parasitic growth the need debriding and surgical removal.
Interesting that the party in control of most of the facts and paying cash at an hourly rate racked up 3x the legal fees of the deferred-pay contingency fee-paying party.
Note to the University of Illinois:
check *properly* before appointing someone and , if the appointment could cause controversy ask an accountant how much revenue loss the controversy would cause. Once the info is in hand decide in favour or against appointment.
Free advice: all the above is called ‘being competent and doing your job’. Read up on that.
Difficult to be sympathetic to such incompetent fools. The plaintiff deserves every penny.
If he had tweeted that gays or blacks were “awful human beings” would he still have deserved every penny?
The Israel lobby has [removed by moderator due to lack of any citations]
Federico: Your idea of “be less incompetent than other enterprises” sounds great, but historically has been difficult to execute. Remember that other American employers are staffed with Americans, just as the University of Illinois is. There is no reason for an investor in a U.S. company to believe that the managers within that company will be more competent than the managers at the University of Illinois.