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Change Agent: Mandell Gisnet Center manager Sara Sturtevant dismisses claims that we’ve become an overly litigious society as a myth. “Ninety-five percent of all lawsuits settle out of court,” she says. “If we’re overburdened, it’s because of BofA.”

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