Walter K. Olson's The Litigation Explosion

Walter K. Olson an author, and blogger who writes predominantly about legal subjects wrote "The Litigation Explosion” which is connected to how lawsuits in America started to become seen as a new fashion or a new trend. Olson stated that “people tend to fight harder when inflamed by dreams of riches or fears of ruin” (224). Litigation has increased and for decades the United States has commemorated an increase of the litigious, but because of an experiment the litigious culture became more extreme during the 1960s and 1970s. As the climate in law school attends increased, thus shaped the litigious culture in America as law schools admired and supported litigation. Accordingly, “The Litigation Explosion” stated that America's litigious culture was starting to become a disaster as if it's another “Big Bang.” The increase of litigation in the United States has many advantages and disadvantages and the reasons for the increase may be harmful or not to the American society. To live in a litigious legal culture for a fact possesses advantages as well as disadvantages. Olson stated, three types of litigation; ethical rules that are setup to control the legal profession itself, a consistent theme too narrow and

For example, the law changed from precise rules to obscure principles. America is more litigious than ever because of the multiple changes in the law and the dramatic increase of the costs. It's substantial to realize that America did not litigate harder because of the contentious population, but because lawsuits increased since those who shaped the legal system wanted more lawsuits. Lawyers started to advertise more by creating commercials, newspaper advertisements, and other ways to advertise for their business, hence the reason lawyers saw a litigation culture as a “compensation” and