What is the best area of single plaintiff work to break into as far as learning curve, and splitting with other non-employment litigation? I currently handle general litigation but might have the opportunity to work with some other partners on employment work. I will likely have flexibility in picking what cases I start off with. I would like to find an area that is interesting but is also manageable to learn while also balancing the rest of my caseload. Thanks!

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Single plaintiff will generally always be wrongful termination, discrimination, retaliation, harassment, failure to accommodate claims (and very often all alleged together). So there isn’t really any option for you but to take those kinds of cases if you’re going to take any cases at all. Wage and hour are usually brought as class actions (and you don’t want to handle the individual ones). But if you can break in with either discrimination/retaliation only or only failure to accommodate, that will make it easier for you because you won’t have to learn both of those standards for one case.

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@A2 that is not necessarily true. It might depend on which state you practice, but it can be fairly lucrative to represent single plaintiffs in W&H work. Not to mention, it is considerably easier to settle a W&H case pre-lit or at least before depositions.

Noncompete/trade secret/mobility has the most overlap with commercial lit

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I think discrimination law is pretty easy to pick up once you have the basics. Most cases follow the same pattern and have the same issues re: discovery, damages, and legal arguments.

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