CAW Legal Services Plan

Answer choices

1. A

   Correct44% picked this

   It points to an aspect of legal plans that the author believes will be detrimental to the

   Why this is right

   This reinforces the "Bookend" ideas, which we love to see on Local Purpose. Before the author says "marketing plans", she says that these legal plans are unlikely to result in long-term client satisfaction or in an increase in profits for law firms. After the author says "marketing plans", she explains how working with these inexperienced lawyers will mean working with lawyers who "tend to have less expertise and to provide less satisfaction to clients". In other words, the fact that these plans will mainly attract inexperienced lawyers means that the quality of legal services provided by these plans will be lower than average (i.e. detrimental to quality).

   Skill tested: Local Purpose · how this choice captures the passage's function is the move to repeat next time.

   44%
2. B

   Too Strong20% picked this

   It is identified by the author as one of the primary ways in which plan administrators believe themselves to be contributing materially to the

   Too Strong: primary ways Wrong Selling Point The author never suggests that plan administrators boast, as one of the primary virtues of these legal plans, that "these will act as marketing devices for inexperienced lawyers!" The administrators think that they're contributing materially to the legal profession primarily by saying, "If you participate in the plan, then sure you'll end up working for less money when you're dealing with plan clients, but they will end up referring you to people not in the plan, so you'll get some full-fee work out of this". In other words, the primary way that plan administrators think that prepaid legal plans will help lawyers is by helping them get more full-fee clients (who aren't in the plan). The administrators never say, "We think this will help the legal profession by platforming inexperienced lawyers". The author brings up that issue as a reason for concern with these plans.

   20%
3. C

   Opposite: benefits19% picked this

   It identifies what the author considers to be one of the few unequivocal benefits that

   The author is talking about "marketing plans" as a bad thing. She thinks that people getting legal services via these plans will primarily be working with less skilled, less experienced lawyers.

   19%
4. D

   Not Attributed to Lawyers8% picked this

   It is reported as part of several arguments that the author attributes to established lawyers

   The author is speaking with her own voice in most of this last paragraph, not attributing arguments to other people. The only moment in the last paragraph where the author attributes an argument to someone else is when she cites an argument that proponents of plan participation make.

   8%
5. E

   Out of Scope9% picked this

   It describes one of the chief burdens of lawyers who have yet to establish themselves and offers an explanation of

   Out of Scope: explain their advocacy Detail-Sentence Trap This is a great example of a trap answer on Local Purpose that is too focused on the detail sentence itself, rather than connecting it to bigger, broader adjacent ideas. The author never cites "need to market oneself" as one of the chief burdens of inexperienced lawyers. And she never attempts to explain their advocacy of legal plans. The passage never states that inexperienced lawyers advocate these legal plans. The author is definitely suggesting a reason why they might, but the passage has never said they do, so we can't say our author is trying to explain something that was never mentioned.

   9%