Self-study
P1
The Canadian Auto Workers' (CAW) Legal Services Plan, designed to give active and retired autoworkers and their families access to totally prepaid or partially reimbursed legal services, has been in operation since late 1985. ████ ███████ ████ ███ ██████ ██ █████ ██████ ███ ██████ █████ ████████ █████ ████████ ███ █████ ███████ ██ ███ ████ ██ ██████████ ██ ███ █████ ██ ██ ███████ ███████ ███████ ████████ ██ █████ ███ ██████ ████ ██ ████ ███ ████ ██ █ ████████████ ███████ ███ ██████ ███ █████ ███ ████████ ██ ███████ ██ █████ ██ ████ ███ ██████ █ ██████ ███ ███ ███████ ███ ███████ ████ ███ ███████ ███
Intro topic ·
CAW plan gives autoworkers access to prepaid legal services
Workers can choose the plan's staff lawyers, or get partially or wholly subsidized service from an outside lawyer.
Reactions to CAW plan ·
Positive
Significant portion of autoworkers are enrolled in the plan. Concept of prepaid legal services is spreading.
P2
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Lawyers' concerns ·
Plan has negative effect on prices for legal services
Even for lawyers who haven't joined the plan, legal fees have been depressed in places where CAW plan operates.
CAW directors' response ·
Plan helps both clients and lawyers
Clients get access to low-price services, and lawyers can grow their business by working with people who otherwise wouldn't use lawyers. And lawyers will get clients from referrals, who would pay standard legal fees.
P3
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Author's critique of CAW plan ·
Plan won't satisfy clients long-term, and won't increase law firm profits much
Support 1 ·
Lawyers in the plan aren't as good as lawyers outside the plan
Established lawyers don't need to participate. So participating lawyers tend to be worse and provide less satisfaction to clients.
Support 2 ·
Full-fee referrals won't make up for servicing the low-fee plan clients
Support 3 ·
Lawyers won't give much time or effort to low-fee plan clients
Passage Style
Critique or debate
4.
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a
a description of █ ████████ ███████████ ███ ██ ██████████ ███ █████████ █ ███████ ██ ███ ███████ ██ ████ ███████████████ █ ████████ ██ ███████████ ██ █████ ████████ ███ ██████████
The author does describe prepaid legal plans and summarize some results of implementing them. But he never proposes any refinements to these plans. Instead, he concludes by criticizing the plans and describing their consequences.
b
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The author never compares prepaid legal plans to any past plans. Also, he concludes by expressing disapproval of the plans, not approval.
c
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The CAW plan has
d
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The author describes prepaid legal plans in P1. He reports the lawyers’ reasoning against the plans and the directors’ reasoning favoring the plans in P2. He then gives his own argument about prepaid legal plans by criticizing them and describing their consequences in P3.
e
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The author does explain and evaluate a recent occurrence: the implementation of prepaid legal plans. But he concludes by criticizing the plans and describing their consequences, not by presenting further data about their implementation.