Why can't I find a contingency lawyer to take my case?
Location: Maryland
I have reached out to numerous contingency lawyers about my case and all of them have declined. I am still employed but I had been telling my employer for years that I had a disability and what it entailed. After about a year of constant reminders and nothing being done about it, I went ahead and had my ADA forms filled out and turned in. I saved the email showing that I had emailed those forms to HR and yet for almost another year very little was done to accommodate me. One day last year a manager who would always acted rather cold to me had snapped and reprimanded me over how the symptom of my legally protected disability was an inconvenience to him. When I tried to explain to him for the 100th time that I could not help having my disability, he responded by saying that maybe I shouldn't work there instead of just adhering to my accommodations. Unfortunately I did not record this conversation but I was on my way to a meeting in regards to the same topic and I made sure to let HR and the other manager know that I would be recording that conversation. In this conversation I made sure to mention the fact that despite me turning in my ADA forms almost a year ago, they continue to ignore my accommodations which they are legally obligated to give me and to that day still offer me shifts for tasks that I am not suited for and then berated me over how I'm bad at the task that THEY gave me that did not align with my accommodation needs. Only then did HR agree to set me up in a different department so that I could get the accommodations that I needed. But even then despite my ADA form saying that I had a permanent disability they only temporarily took me out of my department and then put me right back into it so my job title didn't change. Because of this I was not able to pick up as many shifts because I was told to only pick up shifts through the app but since my job title had not changed, the only shifts shown to me were in the department that I was told not to pick up shifts in. Even though I have emailed the managers who I work directly under as well as HR about the issue multiple times I continue to get ignored. This has caused me to sometimes have months in which I only go into work maybe twice. I have recently reached out to the Accommodations Department for the second time to have my accommodation needs met and was told that I would be receiving a phone call from HR to finish up the reassignment process. It has been almost a full week since then and I'd even spoken to a manager over the phone about the issue and they said that they would just pass the message along and I continue to be ignored.
As far as the manager who said those discriminatory things to me, I did send a discrimination complaint into my jobs ethics department and he was soon fired afterwards but they, of course, would not admit as to why he was let go. I have a letter of right to sue from the EEOC already and I'm still waiting on the papers from FOIA. I'm hoping that when I do get those papers it'll confirm that the manager who I had been complaining about for years was finally fired after I stopped complaining within the building I worked at and escalated things to the Ethics Department years after the issue actually started. Currently, I have email evidence of the one year accommodation delay, email evidence of me continuously being ignored by HR and management when I sent in complaints and concerns regarding my treatment and issues with my accommodation needs, and a legally admissible recording of me speaking with HR and another member of management in which they do not deny that I was even to that day still being called in for shifts that do not align with my accommodation requests that was sent in a year prior.
Now considering all of this, I think I have a good case but several lawyers have only reached back out to me to let me know that they've chosen not to take my case and haven't gone into detail as to why. Is it that my case isn't as strong as I think it is?