Re: 2001 tort cost: 721.00 per citizen
Other similarly complex, industrialized nations don't have anywhere near the mass of lawyers that this country does - and they don't seem to be the worse off for it. Those stats are quite indicative of the prevalence of lawyers in the US relative to the rest of the world. Of course, they aren't quite as extreme as 70% and 5% if you exclude third world and developing countries, but there's still a huge difference.
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