[Amore]

Your analysis is spot-on. Some people make the mistake of blaming judges instead of lawyers. Or vice versa. They're both wrong. Judges ARE lawyers, and they're both in on it together. Legislatures often DO try writing laws to change things, but lawyers have an iron grip on one entire branch of our government. And that's not counting all the lawyers working in the legislative branch as well. Even if a tort-reform law manages to get passed, the judge/lawyers "interpret" the laws -- which means they have the power to strike the laws down or judicially rewrite them. Judges know which side their bread is buttered on.

[reformed_democrat]

Judges ARE lawyers, and they're both in on it together.

Here in Illinois, there was a suggestion to introduce legislation to disqualify any candidate for judge who had been a lawyer.
Needless to say, it went nowhere.