How to sue Equifax and win big

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In 2017, Christian Haigh learned he was one of the 143 million people in the U.S. whose information was hacked in the Equifax breach.

As you might recall, Equifax issued an apology that was almost laughable. Lawyers started class-action lawsuits. But Haigh, who is a co-founder and CTO of litigation finance startup Legalist, had a different approach.

He filed suit against the credit reporting giant in small-claims court in San Francisco.

This was a brilliant idea. I imagine it's unlikely Equifax thought it would be dealing with individual plaintiffs, suing for fairly small dollar amounts, in very informal courtrooms across the country.

Ultimately, Haigh won an $8,000 judgment aga…