Tom has just been let go from his job. Because he had signed the employer's non-competition contract, he must now choose among relocation, a significant career change, unemployment or litigation.

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth —one for every five-hundred Americans; three times as many as are in England, four times as many as are in West Germany, twenty-one times as many as there are in Japan. We have more litigation, but I am not sure that we have more justice.

Other factors of importance, which make litigation of large corporations more difficult, are the size and complexity of their activities.

Citizens are more and more mobilized today. They are taking different actions like marches, petition, litigation.

Tom cynically assumed that the contractor could likely not afford the expense of years of litigation.