This page was edited to reflect that the study is by the American Bar Foundation, not the American Bar Association.
Class-action lawsuits alleging workplace discrimination, like the large sexual-harassment lawsuit filed against retail giant Walmart, may get a lot of press attention. But these cases are also extremely rare, according to a new study released by the American Bar Foundation.
The study, featured in the June issue of the “Journal of Empirical Legal Studies” notes that most people who file employment-discrimination lawsuits do so as solo plaintiffs and are likely to receive modest settlements or nothing at all.
