Lawsuits - Is the answer in one word. The undisputed world heavyweight champion of civil litigation is the USA. The USA has one lawyer for every 265 people, counting men women and children. If you just counted adults it would be much lower. For a perspective Japan has one lawyer for every 5,800 people. There are over 1,000,000 lawyers in the USA (exact figure is 1,143,000, source is ABA year of 2007). In 2008 it is projected that 15 million civil lawsuits will have been filed in the USA in the state courts alone. This is about a 1 in...
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