Lawyers can't have it both ways
In much of Canada (and perhaps the United States), a very broad area of legal services is reserved to lawyers (and to regulated paralegals in Ontario). Yet it is clear that lawyers do not practice, and individuals do not use lawyers, in large parts of this broad reserved area.
One of the policy rationales for alternative legal practice structures (ABSs) is that new ways of providing legal services can permit service of currently unserved or under-served areas.
While the issues are more complicated in areas where lawyers do provide legal services, is the principled choice not between eliminating UPL and permitting ABSs in areas where lawyers do not provide legal services?