Reform of the legal profession should proceed incrementally at the state level rather than as national policy, exploiting the US ability to experiment—as airline deregulation was first observed in California and Texas—by relaxing entry requirements or letting paralegals practice certain services without lawyer supervision, demonstrating lower prices and expanded access for lower-income people without the predicted horror stories.

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Clifford Winston

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moving incrementally at the state level I think is obviously the way to go with these policies to show people look they're not going to be the horror stories that you think

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Clifford Winston on Lawyers 09/5/2011EconTalk
Created: 6/15/2026, 9:26:52 AM

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