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As an American it's our advertisements for lawyers. There are lawyers who specialize in such specific disputes and become household names for it. Like a law firm in my city specializes specifically in being hit by an 18-wheeler, becoming disabled, missing work, and then your job not paying you disability.
There's one lawyer in the city near my hometown who specializes specifically in bodies from the local cemetery flooding into your front yard. America is a land of such poor maintenance that a core feature of our culture is that every large business will have years long court battles over something horrible they did, like selling food with poison in it or knocking someone's house over by accident. And private lawyers do advertisements for their services with butt rock music
I'm gonna be honest, this one's not so strange; the law is gigantic with many little details in it that you have to specialize. This isn't general practitioner level medicine where any dimwit yokel can be like 'hyuck, put some cream on it!'; this actually takes years of practice and learning to get every little detail of how the laws work, using precedents and fact finding. The law is vast and every area, every little detail contains a world of little laws and how they're affected, and even different states can have their own versions of those laws; this isn't just looking at someone's anus and putting on your big boy hat and saying 'hurdy hur, thar's a hemorrhoid!'
The insanely specific law is man made and part of culture. So it's still an example of weird culture. It's also specifically USian, because other countries have laws too, but not these insanely specialized lawyers to this extend nor their bizarre advertisements everywhere.