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Paralegals: Should The Bar Employ Them?, Theodore Voorhees
Paralegals: Should The Bar Employ Them?, Theodore Voorhees
Vanderbilt Law Review
In its campaigns against trust companies, banks, title companies,real estate agents, and accountants, the bar has loftily rested its unauthorized practice challenges on protection of the public interest by claiming that lay personnel lack the trained legal skills of the lawyer. On the other hand, counsel who have represented the targets of these attacks have maintained that the bar has been largely guided by self-interest arising from concern over the profession's loss of work as the public has tended more and more to accept the services of the lay practitioners...At the root of the problem, the bar's loss of legal …
Legal Paraprofessionalism And Its Implications: A Bibliography, Lester Brickman
Legal Paraprofessionalism And Its Implications: A Bibliography, Lester Brickman
Vanderbilt Law Review
If access to legal services is thus essential for the attainment of democratic values, then the efficacy of the legal delivery system is of supreme importance. Much has been written examining the inefficiency of present methods of law practice as a means of conveying services to the consumer,' and still more written decrying the shortage of basic legal services for the poor and for the middle class.' In response to this criticism and as a way of meeting other needs, the profession is trying such new delivery systems as group legal services, prepaid legal insurance, and specialized practice. Additionally, there …
Preventive Law And The Legal Assistant, Louis M. Brown
Preventive Law And The Legal Assistant, Louis M. Brown
Vanderbilt Law Review
An examination of paraprofessionalism may begin with an evaluation of society's need for legal services, a need that is not always obvious,nor indeed even recognized by the general public.' One area in which the provision of legal services to all but the most wealthy clients is notably deficient is that of preventive law. This kind of legal practice seeks to help individuals regulate their activities to avoid legal trouble, in contrast to the litigating aspect of law that comes into play only after a dispute has developed. Since the practice of preventive law requires the use of specialized tools and …