there is no reason why the average person retaining a lawyer can't go through the effort of finding one they are comfortable with. You are vastly overestimatin

there is no reason why the average person retaining a lawyer can't go through the effort of finding one they are comfortable with. You are vastly overestimating the ability of an "average" person to be able to understand and analyze legal complications for themselves. The average person, for example, does not have a college degree [1], let alone a degree in a technical subject that has trained them in analytic reasoning. [1] Only 37% of people age 25-30 in the US have a bachelors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_...