There are many laws and regulations in the legal system in the United States of America. Not only there are hundreds of large books of just federal laws to go through but there is many different one for each individual state. Some laws are reasonably understandable. Others are outrageously strange. Maybe that is why they say that studying law at a prestigious school like Harvard will most likely make you kill yourself before you can graduate. Maybe the reason is that you’re in a highly competitive field where there are many outrageous information to tackle, competing with thousands of other hopeful law students in a school that might have cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The legal system in the United States is so vast, even my business law instructor recommends us to get a lawyer when dealing with it. I use to only have a vague understanding of the law. Most of the time when TV shows that brings up a law, they would not explain in any detail on what it means. Like how certain circumstances are needed to take place for it to become a tort law. What I like to call “laws I can sue you with” laws.
It was a quite shocking to find out that there was more than 12 courts in the US. Never the less, these courts help speed up the process on getting cases done. Unlike the old days, when cases were brought to the king where he arbitrarily decide how it would end. “No one person can possibly know the entire body of law. Even learned judges and lawyers tend to specialize in certain fields.” (Essentials of Business Laws, Liuzzo, pg.3) Here is my advice to you. Get a good lawyer. Let them do the tough thinking and researching.
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