Just imagine how your boss would react if you went out to deliver one of your company's products to a customer and decided to keep the payment in your pocket for a few months. You'd be arrested. You'd be fired. The lawyer handles the legal mumbo jumbo of buying a home. Well, a lawyer's time is very valuable.
Lawyers are very good at keeping track of their valuable time.
And the first thing a good lawyer does is make sure that he doesn't have to waste a lot of his valuable time by actually doing any work. He hires a law clerk to do that. You see, one day, a law clerk is going to be a lawyer. I have no idea. He's already got my money.