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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
Response #1 Why should they subsidize lawyers and our bar association protection rackets? Why can't they hire whoever they want when they want a "legal" service? And you want to see subsidies that result in higher prices?
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Are you serious? Are you really comparing the practice of law to the guy who turns the left screw on the face plate of the TV as it rolls past him on the assembly line?
Anyhow, my clients are all corporations. The executives could try to hire non-lawyers to do my job, but they would be answerable to their shareholders if the non-lawyers screwed up. It does not escape my notice that in large part what some of these corporate clients are looking to do when seeking my advice is to shift the liability for their decisions onto my malpractice carrier. Well, it takes money to pay my malpractice carrier and to have the high limits that the corporations want to see a lawyer have. How would a non-lawyer afford those high limit malpractice policies? Who would even insure them?
An elderly couple without many assets might hire a paralegal to prepare a trust, but would a couple with substantial assets do that? (FYI - I am not a wills and trusts attorney; that was just an example).
I wouldn't lose business if non-lawyers were allowed to practice law.
If your kid is sick, do you want a nurse to see him or her or do you want a doctor? Well, if you have a crappy HMO you might be forced to have a nurse see your kid. But if you have the money and/or foresight to pay a few extra bucks a month to get a good insurance policy, you want your kid seen by a doctor, not a nurse. The same thing would happen in the law. There would just be further polarization between those who could attract corporate clients and those who represent individuals.
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Two words: medical malpractice. Who is making the money on that one again? And who typically makes the rules that allow it to happen?
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What does that have to do with the price of tea in China? (where I believe lots of people do drink tea and therefore, do care about the price of tea. However, it may be politically incorrect to mention that anyone in China drinks tea and/or cares about the price).
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Response #2 While I agree that it would be good if everybody were of above-average intelligence and education, I'm not sure how we could get that to happen.
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Well, I went to good schools and there were more than a few idiots there. If you went to a state school, I am sure that the place was crawling with them.
What on earth makes you think you have to have above average intelligence to get an education?
And did you read what I wrote about nursing? You don't even need to go to college to be an RN.
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Response #3 If you get a chance, please rent "How Green Was My Valley". It won academy awards and all that, so you might like it. If those jobs payed college-graduate level salaries, and all other things were equal, why exactly do you think college-graduates weren't flocking to them?
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If it won an academy award, I can assure you that I wouldn't like it.
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Even if the jobs do pay college-graduate salaries. You wanna see why some people make college graduate salaries without college degrees? Apply and find out some day. I double dog dare ya.
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Unlike most who post on this board, law is not the only profession I am qualified to practice. But what are you talking about here? Are you saying I wouldn't be able to turn the left screw on the face plate of a TV as it rolled past me on the assembly line?
Guess what buddy-boy*? I can sew, too, so I would be quite the textile worker. I can cook, too, so I would be quite the fry cook/sous chef/chef. I can wash dishes, too. And so on and so on.
It is not like I never waitressed in college. Now there is a hard job. And it pays a heck of a lot less than a manufacturing job (unless you get into a high-price restaurant, but they usually don't hire college kids to wait tables and they usually only hire men to wait tables).
*Again, if you are black, I apologize for making that racial slur. But if you are white, then listen up buddy-boy. Why the fuck should a guy who turns the left screw of the face plate of the TV as it rolls past him on the assembly line make more than a waitress or a teacher or a nurse or a customer service representative?
