If you’ve been sexually assaulted, a sexual assault lawyer like us can help you with that. Typically, the sexual assault lawsuits that we work on in civil litigation are against institutions, workplaces, overarching entities that employ people that sexually assault other employees, in particular supervisors or more senior people. Those claims are completely actionable under the law. If there was some sort of touching that was unwanted, or if there was apprehension of imminent harmful contact, that is something that we can help with. There’s no time limit on when you can bring a claim for sexual misconduct, sexual assault, any sort of sexual wrong.
Unlike other lawsuits where there is an applicable limitation period of two years, because of the nature of sexual assault, it could have long-lasting impacts that would impede your ability to bring something forward. There could be complex layers to the sexual assault and its impact on you that would deter you from bringing it forward. So the law acknowledges how hard it is for victims of sexual assault and allows you to bring that claim forward even years after it occurred. I know with a lot of our clients, it takes a while to come to terms with what’s happened, to deal with the psychological impact, and then eventually come to us for help, and that’s all fine by the law. The law allows you to do that, and I’m really glad it does so that we can help people even years after something like that has occurred.
