Inside the Sex Discrimination Case Against Wal-Mart

From the Los Angeles Times, via KTLA5: "Lawyers Take on Wal-Mart," by David Streitfeld. Here are some choice quotes from the article, which profiles the lead attorney, Brad Seligman:

• "The Wal-Mart case has already cost Seligman, his colleague Jocelyn Larkin and the 16 participating lawyers at six other firms nearly $2 million in out-of-pocket expenses."
• "To date, 1.5 million documents have been produced. Luckily, many of them can be stored in cyberspace. The case, in fact, probably wouldn't exist without the Internet. An internal Web site common to all the firms means documents don't have to be sent by messenger or faxed, and that expensive meetings can be kept to a minimum."
• "The lawyers have participated in about 200 depositions, about 75 with Wal-Mart employees who offered to be witnesses."
• "The next step for the plaintiffs is to send letters to the 1 million women who are members of the class action but no longer work at Wal-Mart, informing them of the suit. Their addresses will come from Wal-Mart. The $500,000 for the mailing will come from somewhere else, although it's unclear where."

Who do I think will pay the notice costs? The law firms representing the plaintiffs, which include the class-action powerhouse Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, PLLC.