And it makes an already litigious society more so, afflicting more and more people with onerous discovery, bottomless legal expenses, and grotesque but legal invasions of privacy.
Legal expenses account for a lot of bankruptcy. 
mnli hypothesis: Legal expenses account for a lot of bankruptcy.  premise: And it makes an already litigious society more so, afflicting more and more people with onerous discovery, bottomless legal expenses, and grotesque but legal invasions of privacy.