If law societies regulated fees, I suggest it would have two effects (1) increase both the availability of legal services to the poor generally, and the size of the pool of
potential clients who could seriously even consider retaining a
lawyer, and (2) in the long term, change the character of the legal professional (as a collection of
individuals) for the better
by making the practice of law more like social work, rather than drawing in the sorts of people who's skills are better employed in such fields as sales and business entrepreneurship.
Because it encourages executives to select which recruiters to keep in touch with and to optimise those relationships
by always keeping their data up to date it has the
potential to deliver the level of engagement that
individuals maintain with the traditional roster of professionals, such as
lawyers, accountants and financial advisors and to provide genuinely valuable search information.