Doctors, lawyers, and commercial pilots are licensed professionals. Doctors and lawyers are personally liable for their screw-ups. I don't know how liability w

Doctors, lawyers, and commercial pilots are licensed professionals. Doctors and lawyers are personally liable for their screw-ups. I don't know how liability works with pilots but they will lose their license if they screw up. By operating within the medical standard of care, doctors diminish malpractice liability. So having well-defined systems that help prove that you follow the medical standard of care is important. Lawyers don't have anything like that as a whole. Each lawyer handles their clients their own way. Even in the same firm different partners will have different practices. Some use checklists for their staff to confirm that the certain required forms have been filled out or provided. In the actual work of lawyering, checklists are not a thing I have seen. Though there are "outline" documents to help with bigger projects.