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From: mark@umcp-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: fighting the legal racket
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Date: Tue, 23-Aug-83 18:04:02 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 23 18:04:02 1983
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The ABA MAY have a point, depending on what the secretary was doing.
If she was claiming to be a lawyer, ok, they have her.  But if
she was claiming simply that this is the standard form one
uses for these things and that it is at your own risk, go ahead
if you want to but I'm not a lawyer (which I imagine is more
like the case), they should go away and leave her alone.

I agree that the ABA has everyone paranoid about practicing law
without a license.  I once needed to file suit against someone
and my lawyer advised me how to do it myself (gee, that is actually
a positive thing, isn't it).  At the courthouse there were
lots of forms to fill out, but noone would answer any questions about
them.  If you tried to ask one of the clerks behind the counter,
they would give a frightened look, turn away or say "Shhhh", and
then point to little posted messages around the room explaining this
or that phrase, each with a disclaimer that one should consult
a lawyer for the real information.  Stuff like this maintains
the lawyer mystique real well, and helps rake in the fees for
trivial work.

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