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Two people pay lawyers to argue about who owes what, slowly, forever.
means A formal dispute resolved through the court system, where parties present their case before a judge or jury instead of settling it themselves.
from From Latin 'litigare' ('to dispute, quarrel'), itself built from 'lis' ('lawsuit, strife') plus 'agere' ('to drive, to do, to carry on'). So at its root, litigation just means 'carrying on a quarrel' — which, several thousand years and several thousand billable hours later, it still does.
- true cost
- winners often lose money after legal fees
- timeline
- average case drags 1 to 3 years
- real outcome
- over 90 percent settle before trial
- origin
- from latin litigare, literally to dispute