LEGAL CARE COSTS IN THE UNITED STATES are skyrocketing, with tort costs alone draining American families of $865 billion dollars annually, a sum greater than the entire combined gross domestic products of New Zealand, Hong Kong, Ireland, Vietnam, Qatar, Ecuador, and Luxembourg.

ARE WE GETTING OUR MONEY’S WORTH? ACCORDING TO THE TIMES of London, our legal system is worse than those of Russia and China. Are we any more safe, just and lawful than other industrialized countries such as Japan or Great Britain where the legal care cost burden is half of what we pay per capita?

HALF OF ALL POOR AMERICANS SUFFER from at least one serious legal problem each year, but 75% of them have no access to legal care services. At the same time, the AVERAGE PROFIT PER PARTNER of the most successful law firms was $755,000 per year...and yet these attorneys provided only eight minutes per day of pro-bono legal care services to the helpless who suffer from serious legal conditions.