Re: navigating the legal process, wasting days in court, researching and retaining experts, obtaining records—these are all things perfectly suited to be done not by you, and not by a full-on attorney, but by a paralegal. But paralegals are not allowed to sell their services directly to the public, so you effectively pay lawyer-rates to acquire a paralegal&#x27;s services <i>through</i> some lawyer. The everything-other-than-the-defense portion of law could be a <i>lot</i> cheaper if you could hire your own paralegal to do it, and then pass all their work off to a real attorney if-and-when things came to trial.