Instead, first answer this question, why is it that the method of providing legal services can not
produce affordable legal services?
Not exact matches
That is because materials and supplies no matter how very expertly and cost - efficiently delivered to an obsolescent method of
producing a product (such as the way in which
legal services are
produced), can not make the product
affordable, and therefore, neither can «apps» within the law office.
As a result, the A2J problem of unaffordable
legal services is inevitable because law firms do not have the necessary high degree of specialization and volume of production that
produce the economies - of - scale necessary to maintain
legal services as
affordable.
And law societies don't retain the necessary expertise with which to
produce the innovations that would keep
legal services affordable.
ABSs can't make
legal services affordable because they perpetuate the same method of
producing legal services.
The method of
producing legal services is very obsolete, i.e., making a cottage - industry method of production more cost - efficient will not enable the production of
affordable legal services.
Agreed: affordability requires that the infrastructure for the delivery of
legal services has to: (1) parallel that of the medical profession, i.e., specialist lawyers serving generalists; (2) thereby
producing the highest degree of competence re every factor of production; and, (3)
producing the large economies - of - scale required for
affordable legal services.
Doing so would create the appearance of the
legal profession's saying to the residents of Canada: «We are not going to change our methods of
producing legal services to make them more
affordable.