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Welcome to MyTechnologyLawyer.com. Enterprise Resilience Management Blog: Litigating the Past. There is an old joke that if you want to be competitive with a country like China all you have to do is send over a 1,000 lawyers and let them go to work -- the cost of China's goods will surely rise. The U.S. certainly has lawyers to spare. A decade ago BusinessWeek reported that Japan had only 16,800 licensed lawyers compared to 900,000 in the U.S. In the succeeding decade, the U.S. has produced a couple of hundred thousand more lawyers. With so many lawyers, it's not surprising that the United States became a litigious society. It's also not surprising that a percentage of those lawyers see class-action lawsuits as the road to riches. They have been able to convince untold numbers of litigants that there is easy money to be made by suing rich and well-insured businesses.
When you look at many settlements, however, the only people who really seem to get rich are the lawyers. Dole may or may not have clean hands in this matter. "Shell denies any wrongdoing.