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To Reform the Attorneys, or Not To Reform?

Friday, June 4th, 2010

Attorneys of America, beware: after health care, reform is coming to you next. Singlepayerlegal.org is a new website arguing for legal costs and care to be made available for all Americans equally. As some of their demands, the people at Singlepayerlegal.org hope for a system “in which all attorneys are salaried, and are required to provide legal services to all-comers, regardless of income or disparity-group status, at fair and stable reimbursement rates determined by a Department of Legal Services (DLS).” The idea is to apply to attorneys the same kind of system that is being applied to doctors, thanks to the new health care reform act. But doing so is likely to be a very difficult process, not least because it would involve going up against the attorneys in America who are most likely to best be able to prevent this kind of change from coming about in the first place.