This supply of professional has lowered the value placed upon legal representation. Over supply has helped bring law to some communities, but it has also brought all sorts of mentalities. A mix of attorneys has always existed, but the supply has resulted in a more unpredictable mix of experience and ethical values. These ethical values affect the decisions of attorneys to devote themselves to the time needed to properly represent the needs of their clients. The lack of experience can bring lower prices, because inexperienced attorneys may not know the time involved or understand law office economics to actually earn a salary.
More immigration laws create more confusion and result in more evaluation by an attorney.
Competition reduces the value of an inexperienced or overly-optimistic attorney's time. If an attorney fails to provide an adequate estimate of the amount of time that he will need to spend on representation, then an attorney and their client can get rather upset at each other. If an attorney reported his client applicant, then the attorney may be regulated and penalized by the State and Federal Government. The non-attorney does not understand how to properly interpret words in a law. The words are often interpreted by courts and legal memos, which are unaccessible and incomprehensible to anyone other than a legally trained professional.