[ksdale]

Exactly. When I became a lawyer I was astounded by people speaking in lofty language about how serving people is the highest good and then turning around and saying that we have to protect the legal field from “low skilled” entrants because those people will harm clients with the inevitable malpractice that will occur.

As a lawyer, I know for a fact that a lot of legal work is not complicated enough to require a law degree, but it does because otherwise lawyers would make substantially less money.

There’s a giant gap in the legal market where there are poor people who need simple services and they aren’t getting them because there are no lawyers who can afford to work that cheap and pay off their loans, or the lawyers are doing the work pro bono, which is generous, but why don’t we just let people who aren’t lawyers do more of this clerical work?