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European lawyers never understood the so-called American Rule. Frankly, many businesspeople in America do not understand the American Rule either. Under the American Rule, each litigant pays his own attorneys’ fees, win or lose. In most other jurisdictions, the prevailing party generally gets to recover the costs of litigation including its attorneys’ fees from the losing party. This would be the system even in England from which our legal system originated. In fact, some courts continue to site...