The biggest law cases in American history (think Roe vs Wade) start with people, just plain people filing lawsuits.
Attorney Margaret Klaw specializes in family law, but she sees some of the greatest concerns of our time and our society reflected in the cases she tries. She pulls back the curtain on those cases in her book Keeping It Civil: The Case of the Pre-Nup and The Porsche & Other True Accounts from the Files of a Family Lawyer.