In the latest in the popular series of state-based reports from the Manhattan Institute's Trial Lawyers Inc. project, Jim Copland looks at West Virginia, a state that perennially ranks at or near the bottom in surveys of business confidence in state legal systems. The situation is by no means hopeless, with Mountain State voters having shown a newly stirring awareness of the problems, but the state has a long, long way to go.

Earlier in the series: California, Michigan, Illinois, and Ohio.