Cheapness, Job Searches, Wal-Mart, Weirdness

The Wal-Mart of Law Firms Might Be Wal-Mart

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I don’t know anything about My Community Legal Network. Its website tells us this:

Introduced in 2009, My Community Legal Network scoured through millions of legal and financial professionals looking for the most knowledgeable and sophisticated providers. Then we took the collective bargaining power that comes from millions of Americans and negotiated wholesale prices from these top professionals. We take these discounted rates and offer them directly to our members. There is no markup; only the best professionals at the best prices. My Community Legal Network currently only offers services in the United States but has plans to expand these services to Canada, Mexico, and South America by the end of 2010.

I have a bad feeling about this.
Based on that description, I suppose the picture after the jump will make more horrifying sense.



My friends, there is something wrong when legal services can be purchased at Wal-Mart. Surely, this society is not yet so litigious that we need legal services to be sold alongside cheap clothing and other cut-rate products.
Digging around the My Community website, the business model of this — I don’t even know what to call it — law joint becomes even more disturbing:

My Community Legal Network is more than just discounted legal and financial solutions. MCLN offers an extraordinary business opportunity that can give you the freedom and flexibility that you’ve been looking for. If you’re looking for a fulfilling career that can give you the income potential and free time you’ve been dreaming of, then MCLN may be the opportunity for you! …
At My Community Legal Network, you’re in business FOR yourself but not BY yourself.
MCLN provides all the support and training you will ever need to run your business! Plus, you have the freedom and flexibility to build your business how you want it — when you want to. You can change your own life while helping other people change their lives — what could be better than that?
You don’t need a background or degree in law or business. You just need the drive to succeed. MCLN is 100% dedicated to helping your business efforts and offers a support system that is unparalleled in the industry.

Can’t you see Rodge Cohen or Justice Scalia walking past this joint and bursting into tears? I know I’m an elitist New York prick, but come on. For the love of God, just look at the picture. It looks like a freaking Lens Crafters. There’s no dignity in this.
We are going from white shoe to bare feet right before our eyes.

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