I want to begin by quoting what a French traveler had to say about American lawyers two hundred years ago. You may assume I mean Tocqueville because he is often quoted for his commentaries on American life, but I have in mind St. John de Crevecoeur, who wrote Letters from an American Farmer,published in 1784.
Citation
A. E. Dick Howard, Our Litigious Society, 38 South Carolina Law Review, 365–379 (1987).