I think this says more about the virtues of the American legal system, and less about the efficiency of lawyers or any trend in the quality of judgments relative to the standard.

https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/11/05/359830235/....

>Here is another telling statistic: Brazil has more law schools — some 1,240 — than the rest of the world combined. And they have turned out some 800,000 lawyers — which means there are more lawyers per capita in Brazil than in the U.S.

Israel has the most, followed by the US https://twitter.com/pankajghemawat/status/575654688491708416

That's what you believe, is there evidence to support your two claims? I don't think HN should be a place where people state their "beliefs" about quantitative statements without providing a single number or citation.