I appreciate this sentiment in each of those examples, but how often do we talk about non-doctors, non-cpas, non-judges? This feels like a more true comparison IMO.
I get the resentment of "non-lawyers" and have criticized and avoided that phrase. But often it's used in a non-disparaging sense. Simply to mean people who aren't lawyers. (And aren't necessarily "allied professionals.") We happily talk about nonsmokers, nonvoters, nonbinary ...
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Part of my issue with “non-lawyer” is that it is lazy and overly broad (which is ironic coming from lawyers). Does one mean babies, astronauts, SRLs, CEOs, tennis players, teens? Rarely is that the case. We need better language to describe who we actually mean.
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Do we mean members of the public? Policy makers? Paralegals? Court staff? Legal assistants? Developers? Software engineers? Publishers? Be specific.
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We also have ‘allied health professionals’, ‘paramedics’, ‘paralegals’ and in universities ‘academic-related’ staff. The law industry could do much better than it does.
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I think we need to come up with better words--that denote a role. Hard to do. So we should start a list, like "navigator" "legal coach" "process guide" "case manager" "liason to the system (x)" hopefully there will be certifications/courses that develop to create the roles/define
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