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
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a
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This is stated
b
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This isn’t stated in the passage. The author says that members are happy to have
c
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This isn’t stated in the passage. The author doesn’t mention why the plan members consult lawyers. We don’t know what kind of legal matters members use the plan for.
d
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This is not stated in the passage. P2 tells us that plan members can either use the plan’s staff lawyers or an outside lawyer. Outside lawyers can either sign up as a “cooperating lawyer” at the plan’s rate, or charge a higher fee, which the client pays. So clients might pay a higher fee for an outside lawyer, but it’s not true that they must pay a higher fee, since outside lawyers can choose to be cooperating lawyers.
e
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This isn’t stated in the passage. We know that the CAW plan