Here is a book shedding a quick and bright light on some of the darker corners of the legal system. A collection that will at once amuse, bemuse, and horrify. A great read coupled with top notch research..

Every kind of make-work for our legions of lawyers is covered here: imagined new entitlements, workplace grievances, shakedowns of “deep pocket” defendants, improbable claims of emotional distress, prisoner lawsuits (what else is there to do in the pokey?), litigious compulsives, amateur constitutional scholars.
The author helpfully provides an URL for each case so that you can see the original documents on the internet as PDFs.

Part of me hopes against hope that each of these stories was just a one-off. Alas, that is not the case. If you like to reflect on life’s absurdities, this is the perfect book for you. It’s both very funny and informative, a rare combination of nothing but the facts.