Should businesses making siting decisions seek out localities with a low per capita number of lawyers? Well, not really; lawyers do perform a great many functions besides filing lawsuits, and there’s far from a perfect correlation between the quantum of litigation risk in a locality and the number of attorneys in practice. The better course, if the objective is to avoid legal hassles, is to identify other indicators of a nonlitigious local business climate. That’s what I argued in a recent interview with Expansion Management magazine, said to be read by more than 45,000 site-selection executives. (Michael Keating, “Research Corner: The Cost of Litigation Comes Right Off the Bottom Line”, Oct.).