Self-study
P1
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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
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According to the author’s criticism in P3, the plans “
b
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P3 describes the author’s criticism of prepaid legal plans, not the plan administrators’ opinion. We have no idea what administrators think of the plans being “marketing devices” for unestablished lawyers, since administrators aren’t mentioned in P3. We just know that the author thinks that unestablished lawyers will bring lower quality services and less client satisfaction.
c
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The author thinks that the plans functioning as “marketing devices” for unestablished lawyers is a cost, not a benefit. He believes that unestablished lawyers will bring lower quality services and less client satisfaction.
d
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The claim that the plans function as marketing devices for unestablished lawyers is part of the author’s own argument against the plans; he doesn’t attribute this argument to lawyers. Also, he says that established lawyers won’t participate in the plan because
e
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We don’t anything about the burdens of unestablished lawyers or whether unestablished lawyers advocate for legal plans at all. Instead of (E), the author uses the referenced text to argue that the plans will bring lower quality legal services and less client satisfaction, since established lawyers probably won’t participate.