I would like to hear Mark Levins take on this issue.
My only problem wiht LegalZoom is that they use that lame marketing strategy “It’s National Make a Will Month!” aka “It’s National Buy Our Product Month!”
All knowledge-based professions are up against this and will more and more over time lose to ever better computer-based learning and robot-controlled systems.
The objective of Licensing requirements, is to keep competitors out. should be done by independent organization and they should be liable
The legal biz is vile. Three cheers for LegslZoom.
If I had some simple legal issue, for which boiler plate legal documents were adequate, I might use them. Otherwise, for more complicated legal matters, or issues of big legal or financial liability, I would spend the money to hire an attorney to deal with a legal matter.
Legalzoom.com is great if all you need is very general info.
Ain't Fascism wonderful?
This is the same as if union plumbers tried to make handy-man services illegal, or if licensed psychologists tried to make self-help books illegal, or if salesmen tried to make Craig’s list illegal, or if burger king tried to make backyard flame broiling illegal. The Free-market will always find the most efficient path, the toll both of Government licensing and regulation has a by-pass. I despise those who refuse to innovate and increase their market value, but seek only to stay king of the hill by keeping others off the hill.
Legalize freedom!
Bar Associations are insidious. Control over most of them has been seized by liberal, activist lawyers with financial support from the trial lawyers. They are gatherings of the most liberal people in a state like mine (Kansas) outside of university faculty clubs.
They have assumed quasi government roles in selecting or vetting judges. Here in Kansas the bar association provides fully half of a commission that recommends Supreme Court justices to the Governor. The Governor must select from that list. They are also influence on the selection of other judges and are fighting to eliminate the election of judges which will ensure a solidly left wing judiciary who will be more powerful than the legislature.
Lawyers, dentist’s realtors, etc are guilds. Archaic market entities fixing prices and regulating their industry to serve themselves.
Because the Legal Profession is a Monopoly that is enforced by the “Bar Association”....
The Bar Association should have been “Trust Busted” a very DAMNED LONG time AGO!
Frankly, I think I’d like to be judged by a computer.
As a matter of fact, how many of this Country’s problems would disappear if we just replaced nearly all of the lower courts with automated systems and relegate the ‘lawyers’ to only cases in higher courts...
Eh...fantasy over.