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Costs of a Robinson-Patman Act Lawsuit

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The main costs of a Robinson-Patman Act lawsuit are the legal fees. The rest of the costs are manageable. As stated above, this type of lawsuit should have out-of-pocket expenses of about $25,000. The defendant will try to increase these costs by doing things that they feel are costly for the plaintiff to respond to. If the lawsuit is settled during the first year, the lawsuit out- of-pocket costs are often less than $1,000, surprising that this may seem, because the first year is motion practice, not discovery. The main costs are in discovery and an expert witness.

Some of the additional expenses are copying, postage, telephone, legal research, accountant, travel, deposition transcripts, copying of documents produced by the defendants.

I have discussed costs of litigation at Costs of a Robinson- Patman Act Lawsuit. This article was prepared with the suit in mind, but the cost of an expert was not included thinking, perhaps too optimistically, that officials of the plaintiff could testify as experts. I have to cut costs in this type of litigation to make it possible. I can't match the defendants they have billions dollars my side generally has nothing instead of spending money our job is to spend time and ingenuity.