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farceSpherule
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Gen AI Makes Legal Action Cheap – and Companies Ne...
If we had something similar to the "English rule", litigation in this country would decrease drastically.
The English rule provides that the party that loses in court pays the other party's legal costs.
acdha
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That would be a godsend for large companies who can let the likelihood of being bankrupted by legal fees deter most lawsuits.
klodolph
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Right, and if we put everybody in work camps, unemployment would drop. It’s easy to improve a single metric (like “amount of litigation”) if you don’t care about any of the other effects it would have.
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The English rule provides that the party that loses in court pays the other party's legal costs.