Re: Would Legal Insurance boost employment?

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I was never on it, but a friend of mine did some time as a
Attorney for Hyatt. She never had anything good to say about
it, and eventually quit doing it over a Will dispute. She had
written a will and the client kept wanting revisions. She
wanted a separate payment for eact revision, Hyatt wanted her
to to do all the revisions for the same one Will price. I
think her biggest complaints were 1) you don't get paid until
after the work is done, 2) the clients expected Platinum
Service for Tinfoil Prices. I did did take a look at the Fee
Schedule, and it was truly minimal. I think that universal
Legal Insurance would hurt lawyers (reduce the profitablity
of going to law school), but benefit the paralegals (increase
the need for trained paralegals), since I think the only way
to do it cheaply enough is to use non-lawyer staff. The
business of law is trending to that anyways. 1-2 Lawyers
supervising a room full of paralegals churning paper. Thats
what Legal Insurance would lead to.

Is that good or bad for society? I don't know. I don't think
it does much for those of us who invested in Law School.