I find intriguing the Pennsylvania lawyer’s remark about “suing your own mother,” which is how students once might of thought of it (regardless of their understanding of the Latin “alma mater”). I think this accounts for much overlawyering of American society. People have always been greedy. But they haven’t always been so disloyal to the institutions of society, like the company, the factory, the neighborhood, the school and even (yes), the government, especially local government. The fracturing of society has helped that – all these institutions are supposedly “racist” or “sexist,” so it’s OK to hit them. Every man for himself in today’s world means every man must hire a lawyer, or be one. We are at the dawn of the Mad Max Era.