Walking Papers

As the founder and leader of an employment law firm, Attorney Josh Van Kampen approaches litigation as a life-or-death situation — and losing isn’t an option. There are three phases to the litigation process: the lawsuit, the discovery phase, and the trial.  In the first of this three-part series on litigation, employment lawyer Josh covers everything you need to know about filing your lawsuit, starting with the most important part: the unconventional (yet highly effective) way he approaches writing the complaint's introduction.  "We write our introductions like an opening statement to a jury. So we figure out what our theme is early and we hit that theme, literally in the first paragraph of the complaint, and we'll hit that theme all the way through to the jury trial, if we get there," Josh says.  Once the introduction has been written, it's time to file your lawsuit. Here, you have a choice between filing in a federal or a state courthouse, both of which have their pros and cons.  Josh c