If by quickly you mean 5 to 10 years of paying a retainer on a lawyer sure. Even if you win the case you lose in life. Most individuals can't afford 500k in leg

If by quickly you mean 5 to 10 years of paying a retainer on a lawyer sure. Even if you win the case you lose in life. Most individuals can't afford 500k in legal fees to have them be reimbursed years later. Big companies have lawyers on staff at a discount and they play these games every day. This happens with illegal things all the time. IE manager sexually harasses someone on video or something, it's some CEOs nephew who did it, so they fire the person who got harassed. The person who got harassed now has to aquire legal counsel on top of paying relocation claw backs etc. Few years ago by and the person who was in the right is trying to hold down a job, a family, and the stress of the legal battle. The company offers to settle two years in for 50k and 99% of people take it, sometimes at a loss. Also, getting employed is a lot harder when a background check reveals suing a previous employer or really any company, because shocker, most companies do illegal shit regularly... So it's almost always best to settle I realize I painted a picture pretty far from my previous statement but I figured you were new in your career and could benefit from an allegory of how stuff like this goes down.