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Re:We Are All Lawyers Now – The Rise of the Legalish by jsight on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @09:42AM (#18283281)
Right, but I think the question is why did we create such laws for lawyers but not other professions?

Or maybe alternatively, those laws do exist for other professions, but other professions are not as risk averse about being sued over them. For example, I'm pretty sure that practicing medicine without a license is just as illegal, but I've never heard a doctor worry about saying "this is not medical advice".

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Re:We Are All Lawyers Now – The Rise of the Legalish by rayiner on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @10:12AM (#18283516)
Practicing medicine typically involves more than just a conversation, so there is little risk of creating a perceived patient-doctor relationship based in just oral advice. Lawyers by contrast routinely practice law just by having a conversation.
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Re:We Are All Lawyers Now – The Rise of the Legalish by jsight on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @10:31AM (#18283655)
That is certainly a fair point. The bar for creating a patient-doctor relationship in the legal sense is probably much higher.
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