My sister is a lawyer who recently left a firm and struck out on her own. I had the idea of doing a startup to give people legal advice, and bring her on as a partner to make sure everything was legit. It took her about ten seconds to talk me out of it.

Short version - there's a LOT of laws around who can and can't practice law, and even if you put a banner saying "THIS IS NOT LEGIT ADVICE, TALK TO A REAL LAWYER" you're still likely to get into legal trouble. On top of that, your customers have every right to sue you into non-existence, even if the service you provide is good.

Legal services are an industry that really needs disruption. Our current model makes the law accessible to the rich and inaccessible to the middle class and poor. Unfortunately, there is so much risk involved, no one with less than a billion in the bank would ever consider doing it. If you have a billion in the bank, you aren't exactly motivated to deconstruct the system that protects you.

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So I'm supposed to think the guy trying to offer low end legal services to people otherwise denied obvious scam artist trying to shill a grift is the bad guy and the lawyers protecting their intentionally arcane and inaccessible vocation are the good guys?

Fixed