Like everything in life, there are two sides of the coin. When I was in law school, I worked with a small town in central Illinois that Big Chemical Co. had left polluted with heavy metals after a decades-long mining operation. Making headway in the lawsuit was extremely difficult because of all the legal barriers put in place to protect defendants. The legal system has become very unfriendly to plaintiffs over the last 20-30 years and it&#x27;s affecting a lot of legitimate cases.