Students are taught to be «
legal technicians,» with very little emphasis, at least during the first year, on the social and ethical ideals of the profession in its public role: «the first - year experience as a whole, without conscious and systematic efforts at counterbalance, tips the scales... away from cultivating the humanity of the student and
toward the student's re-engineering into a «
legal machine.
With the growing movement
toward do - it - yourself
legal services and relaxed regulations on providers, more clients are turning to online, non-attorney
legal services and
legal technicians who are more adequately addressing the needs of the masses.