Available Damages

In a wrongful termination case, those damages are typically characterized in these categories. One is emotional distress. What was the emotional distress of losing the job like? What impact did it have on your daily life and your monthly life? The sleepless nights, the anger, the frustration, the self-doubt—all of those issues are part of your emotional distress, and we ask a jury to compensate you for that. It’s not exactly clear as to what that is, but we do ask the jury to put a dollar figure on that. That includes both past and future emotional distress, and we also ask them about future emotional distress. The impact that the termination had on you or will have on you in the future is called future emotional distress.