"Please, by all means, take the word of FKNA, over the sage words of a Stanford Law graduate (IAAL)"
IAAL, just which words of did you want tomvancer to listen to by you? Could it be "Please, take FKNA's advice"...after all, that's the only advice we have seen you give tom.
Or maybe the God Almighty IAAL will tell our poster tomvancer how the attorney will prove his case in a court of law, convincing a jury that injuries were incured, resulting in loss of wages based on the information that has been provided?
So IAAL, seems to me what you are trying to tell us if I were walking down the street in Burbank, CA and saw you. Then didn't go to work for a few weeks, I could then hire an attorney saying you assaulted me, sue your butt and win?