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From: lew@ihuxr.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: fighting the legal racket
Message-ID: <573@ihuxr.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Aug-83 11:24:46 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 22 11:24:46 1983
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There was a Newsweek (I think) article about a woman who had been the
secretary for a lawyer. She noticed that he was charging hundreds of
dollars for divorces and wills, when all he was doing was handing the
job over to her. She simply typed up a form and sent it in to the
appropriate agency.

Sooo, she decided to go into business herself. She files papers for people
(exactly what she was doing for the lawyer) at a fraction (~ 1/10) of
what lawyers charge. She is now being prosecuted for practicing law without
a license. The ABA is after her with some kind of lawsuit with the 
rationale of protecting potential "victims" who might get into trouble
by relying on her untrained help. Newsweek noted that the ABA offered
"with unintended irony" the theory that many of these people need this
protection since they wouldn't be able to afford a lawyer!

	Lew Mammel, Jr. ihuxr!lew