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did he get any money? found the info: "He got a lawyer, and came to believe that returning to work might signal a degree of mental fitness detrimental to litig

did he get any money? found the info: "He got a lawyer, and came to believe that returning to work might signal a degree of mental fitness detrimental to litigation. Instead, he spent eight weeks in Anguilla. Eventually, Business Week had to let him go. The lawsuit he filed, for twenty-five million dollars, against the building’s management and the elevator-maintenance company, took four years. They settled for an amount that White is not allowed to disclose, but he will not contest that it was a low number, hardly six figures" https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/04/lawyers-making-clients-worse-off-department-nicholas-whites-elevator-ride/ https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/04/lawyers-making-clients-...

kahirsch 4y ago
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/04/21/up-and-then-down https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/04/21/up-and-then-do... Undisclosed settlement, probably "low six figures" (between $100,000 and $500,000).
- playingalong 4y ago
  Isn't low six figures between 1 million and 10 million?
  - jefftk 4y ago
    $XXX,XXX is six figures. Single digit millions ("$X,XXX,XXX") would be seven figures.
    - rationalist 4y ago
      I also wrote an explanation, but after I submitted, I saw three more, all of which beat mine (yours was the first looking at the comment ID), so I deleted it. I personally wish that people would check to see if someone else beat them or wrote a better answer (yours is also a better answer than the other two, but alas this account does not have enough karma to downvote the others), and if so, delete theirs like I did. Oh well.
      - mulmen 4y ago
        All three comments were posted within 5 seconds of eachother.
        rationalist 4y ago
        Yes.
  - jaywalk 4y ago
    1 million: 7 figures 10 million: 8 figures
  - xyzelement 4y ago
    No, a million is 7 figures (one followed by 6 zeros)
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  - mproud 4y ago
    “Hardly six figures” could be interpreted as very low six figures.

kahirsch 4y ago

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/04/21/up-and-then-down https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/04/21/up-and-then-do... Undisclosed settlement, probably "low six figures" (between $100,000 and $500,000).

playingalong 4y ago
Isn't low six figures between 1 million and 10 million?
- jefftk 4y ago
  $XXX,XXX is six figures. Single digit millions ("$X,XXX,XXX") would be seven figures.
  - rationalist 4y ago
    I also wrote an explanation, but after I submitted, I saw three more, all of which beat mine (yours was the first looking at the comment ID), so I deleted it. I personally wish that people would check to see if someone else beat them or wrote a better answer (yours is also a better answer than the other two, but alas this account does not have enough karma to downvote the others), and if so, delete theirs like I did. Oh well.
    - mulmen 4y ago
      All three comments were posted within 5 seconds of eachother.
      - rationalist 4y ago
        Yes.
- jaywalk 4y ago
  1 million: 7 figures 10 million: 8 figures
- xyzelement 4y ago
  No, a million is 7 figures (one followed by 6 zeros)
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- mproud 4y ago
  “Hardly six figures” could be interpreted as very low six figures.