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Nobody is complaining about those cases. The vast majority of disputes never even make it inside a courtroom because many laws are clear and simple. If you have a good law then nobody ever talks about it, or needs to.

What people want to change are the areas where the law is a mess. Divorce, patent litigation, etc. Laws that criminalize innocuous behavior and allow prosecutors to overcharge defendants at whim. And a common characteristic with these messes is that spending a lot of money on lawyers will significantly improve outcomes, so that people who can, have to -- or they get screwed. Which is what happens to the people who can't.



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