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by mr_toad 1455 days ago
The US has a reputation for litigiousness and comically large judgements. That probably influences the amount of legal advertising.
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Not really - the US isn’t an especially litigious society and that myth was created by large corporations to cause a chilling effect on justified personal injury lawsuits: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/24/americ...
Not a very convincing article, since it presents some statistics about the US (e.g. "only 10% of injured Americans ever file a claim for compensation and only 2% file lawsuits") but does not compare them to other countries, so we can't tell whether the US is more or less litigious than the rest of the world.