that it does work? how else would this work? someone claims a grievance and needs assistance to settling the dispute. by having this option of a lawyer(group/individual) front the cost it lets anyone bring a viable dispute to the table. It shakes out the frivolous from taking up the time of the courts. It also insures those suing have standing which can be difficult except when facing corporate entity. Against government a common ploy is to claim the plaintiffs don't have standing and without a private agency to go to bat for a group it can be real difficult to move forward?

Government intervention? How would that work? Worse I can imagine all sorts of ways that it would be abused. Look at how much frivolous suits are in the system filed by those who don't to put any skin into the game