you might as well think big:

$116 trillion lawsuit filed by 9/11 families against Saudi Arabia. $116 trillion is a very big number, indeed. By way of comparison, the GDP for the US is somewhere around $8 trillion. Given the absurd lawsuit judgements in so many tort cases, it wouldn't surprise me if they could find a jury to agree with the number (I suggest Mississippi or Alabama where "Jackpot Justice" is the rule.) Then, after the lawyers get their customary 1/3rd share, each of the 600 families would receive a tidy $128.9 billion - before taxes. After being hit with a tax rate of somewhere around 50%, they'd end up with "only" somewhere around $64 billion - roughly the same net worth as Bill Gates. That's assuming they could find a way to collect and that there's that much money on Earth. Just out of curiosity, what's the estimated value of all the Saudi oil fields, anyway?