"Small Business and Legal Reform" (:34)

America's legal crisis is having a devastating effect on the engine that drives the U.S.

economy -- our small businesses.  This new study shows that their price tag for lawsuits is

$88 billion a year.  America's small business owners should be using this hard-earned money to invest in new American jobs -- not in the bank accounts of trial lawyers.  Until comprehensive changes are made to stop frivolous litigation at both the state and federal levels, America's small businesses will continue to pay for a legal system run amok.

--Lisa Rickard, President
  Institute for Legal Reform