Today’s Los Angeles Times reports that the local city of Vernon has spent $54 million on lawyers in the past decade. This industrial city has only 26 households, but it has employed 34 private law firms. See Sam Allen and Hector Becerra, Tiny Vernon Spends Big on Lawyers, January 21, 2011, at p. A1. For details go to http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-vernon-lawyers-20110110,0,3257302.story