The justice system is not supposed to be driven by the market. In theory, they could have done this entirely without paying any lawyers: I doubt the paperwork b

The justice system is not supposed to be driven by the market. In theory, they could have done this entirely without paying any lawyers: I doubt the paperwork by itself would have cost too much for a normal company. In practice, the problem with the justice system is that it's too large to navigate without lawyers, and lawyers must be paid. That's an indictment of the market's inability to force lawyer fees down to a reasonable level, not the justice system.