> Check out the amount of lawyers per capita

Apparently a highly biased measurement because the German legal system has more public funding compared to the US. I asked «For an argument against litigious societies, where someone points to "lawyers per capita" to compare the US with Germany, what might be a better yardstick?»

The response was interesting to me: the key bit was "Germany has a massive civil service and specialized court system where many law degree holders work as judges or state administrators". I'm a geek from New Zealand so unfortunately that isn't something I can validate from knowledge.