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.
Support 3 ·Lawyers won't give much time or effort to low-fee plan clients
Passage Style
Critique or debate
7.
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Question Type
Purpose in context (of word, phrase, or idea)
Structure
We need to read before and after the quote to get a better sense of its purpose in context. In P3, the author gives his own criticism of prepaid legal plans. He thinks that, since established lawyers won’t benefit from participation, the plans “function largely as marketing devices” for unestablished lawyers. According to the author, this is a negative consequence of the plans, since inexperienced lawyers will bring lower quality services and less client satisfaction.
According to the author’s criticism in P3, the plans “function largely as marketing devices” for unestablished lawyers. He points to this as a negative consequence of the plans, since he believes that inexperienced lawyers will bring lower quality services and less client satisfaction.
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 they won’t benefit from it, not because it functions as a marketing device for unestablished lawyers.
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.
Difficulty
39% of people who answer get this correct
This is a very difficult question.
It is significantly harder than the average question in this passage.
CURVE
Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right
25%155
168
75%180
Analysis
Purpose in context (of word, phrase, or idea)
Structure
Critique or debate
Law
Answer Popularity
PopularityAvg. score
a
39%
165
b
21%
161
c
20%
159
d
8%
158
e
12%
159
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