The Lawsuit Lottery: The Hijacking of Justice in America

Contributed by Rosie Cisneros

Brothers Douglass and Benjamin Lodmell can add “published author” to their resumes this summer as The Lawsuit Lottery: The Hijacking of Justice in American hits bookstore shelves.

Almost four years in the making, the Lodmell’s timing couldn’t be any better for publishing. With the Lodmell brothers busy running a successful legal practice and charity, the process of writing a book wasn’t an easy task. “For years, we thought about writing a book on the lawsuit crisis because, as one of the nations most experienced asset protection law firm, it just made sense for us to do it” said Doug Lodmell, co-founder of Lodmell & Lodmell, P.C. added, “and it’s now the perfect time for publication because our legal system is out of control.”

The Lawsuit Lottery is a social commentary that attempts to shed light on the hijacking of justice in America by the world’s costliest tort system. In doing so, the book exposes the devastating harm being inflicted by a broken legal system on the nation’s economy, the character and freedom of its citizens, and the legitimacy of the United States in the international community.

With more than a million lawyers and 70,000 lawsuits a day, the U.S. civil justice system has been corrupted into a gigantic get-rich-quick lottery, a new national pastime played 20 million times a year by a growing army of self-styled “victims” and their increasingly powerful and predatory attorneys.

No one is excluded from the “the lawsuit lottery.” In today’s greed-driven, none-for-all-and-all-for-one society, Americans are suing each other for every conceivable complaint regardless of merit or the common good — in a dysfunctional tort system that is no longer civil or just.

At stake is a payout bigger than all the legitimate state and national lotteries combined, a “tort tax” of almost $1 trillion in the past five years alone, plus at least another estimated $3 trillion in court judgments and settlements in the next decade.

Gone is the public’s sense of responsibility and accountability. These have been replaced by self-serving feelings of entitlement to the wealth of others and a cynical, paralyzing fear of a legal system where too much law is practiced and not enough justice is dispensed.

Among the most urgent reforms suggested by the Lodmells is the reestablishment of our civil courts as havens for reasonable redress of legitimate disputes, where the Rule of Law, the backbone of America’s legitimacy, once again can be relied upon to dispense justice equitably, and where attempted abuse of the tort system can be quickly and strongly discouraged by judges rededicated to ensuring that justice is served instead of assessing liability.

Future Asset Protection Books Planned
The Lawsuit Lottery is the first of several books the Lodmells have committed to writing. Future books will be similar social commentaries on subjects like charity and American policies. “As this book goes to press, the out-of-control legal system now is just a reminder of far greater needs in a ‘world gone mad’ and we’ve got many stories and opinions to share” stated Benjamin Lodmell, co-author of The Lawsuit Lottery and Executive Director of World Children’s Relief, the charity founded by the Lodmells.