Reviewed by Ralph Warner
Anyone who has ever worked in a legal aid office or law library has met people whose lives have come unhinged after a bad contact with the legal system. The details vary; they may have lost a business or inheritance or the custody of a child, but the common theme of feeling ripped off (violated) by the legal system does not. Even 20 years after losing a lawsuit, some people who suffer from legal abuse syndrome still carry a suitcase of old legal papers around, desperately hoping someone will help them find justice.
This is the first book to identify what can best be described as a mental illness. It's must reading for anyone who comes in contact with America's small army of "suitcase people".
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