The US legal system has room for improvement. The Musk/Unsworth defamation trial is fairly simple, with few factual disagreements. Musk wrote what he wrote—court just has to decide if it& #39;s defamatory. The trial hasn& #39;t even started and the parties have already filed 134 documents.

Here& #39;s a 26-page legal brief from Unsworth& #39;s lawyers arguing about whether a particular witness should be permitted to testify. https://www.plainsite.org/dockets/download.html?id=286084184&z=69bde898">https://www.plainsite.org/dockets/d...

I don& #39;t know how many hours lawyers spent on that brief or what their hourly rate is but I bet both numbers are large. Multiply that by dozens of other documents filed by each side and you can see why it& #39;s prohibitively expensive for non-wealthy people to use the legal system.

I have no idea how you& #39;d even get started reforming this. There isn& #39;t one rule dictating that court cases involve hundreds of documents. I think it& #39;s the steady accumulation of picayune rules, with no one with the incentive or power to streamline things.