It’s been nearly 35 years since then-Vice President Dan Quayle delivered a speech in which he decried the costs of hyper-litigiousness on the American economy. His speech would not require much surgery to make it as relevant today as it was then, nor to spur the same howls of discontent from the American Bar Association. 

The costs of litigation are baked into the overhead of doing business in America. Virtually no industry or business type is immune to the ravages of the evolving lawsuit machinery, and the only winners are the trial lawyers who feed its ravenous appetite.