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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 …