[OT] command of English by non-native speakers

[Amedee Van Gasse (ub)]

On Thu, December 10, 2009 11:29, Gilles Gravier wrote:

> USA has this about trigger happy lawyers because the law in the USA
> allows a lawyer to tell you : "Let's go to court. If we lose, you don't
> owe me anything. If we win, you give me X percent of what money we get."
>
> With this kind of legislation (illegal in many European countries, for
> example), of course, lawyers will try to have you go to court as often
> as they can. The whole system is flawed.

Not the whole system. Just the part about the trapper higgy landsharks.