Steve has some fascinating theories on how a changing society has completely rewritten what a jury is looking to award a plaintiff.

I went through periods of time where person-injured lawyers were scorned.

They were blamed for all kinds of societal troubles.

They were thought of very unfavorably till it It was great to be a trial lawyer.

That changed.

And then the verdicts were too large, and there were ads on TV, someone standing in front of a burned-out factory saying, lawsuit.

The other side did a great, great job of demonizing personal injury lawsuits.

It turns out, according to Steve, that it might all come down to the structural alignment.