Seems like a lot of successful people in business know exactly how far they can step over the line without suffering serious consequences.
Looking at what the growth trajectories are of countries with high corruption, it’s not great, so our growth is probably still reduced by the corruption or lawlessness that still exists.
The alternative is something like oligarchs that extract wealth because of state granted monopolies, corporatism that strangles competition with anti competitive regulation, etc. The accumulation of wealth is all out of proportion and possibly not even correlated in those cases with the production of actual value.
Asking because it turned out nearly impossible to find a local lawyer to advise on a dispute couple months ago - with 9 out of 10 telling me they only do divorces or real estate or immigration. I was literally calling one by one from a list based on what I believe were relevant search criteria on State Bar website.
I had them recommended to me. I have used them and was pleased.
If you're in California, try the following; they all know their stuff and aren't in supercostly BigLaw firms (although I think most are BigLaw alumni):
- Betsy Bayha - https://www.linkedin.com/in/betsy-bayha-560107/
- George Grellas - used to post here a lot, not so much recently - https://grellas.com/our-team/george-grellas/
- Sean Hogle - https://www.linkedin.com/in/epiclaw/
- Kyle Mitchell - https://kemitchell.com/