If your lawyer does not have a paralegal, you should fire them.
1) So your advice is to only hire lawyers from large law firms? Lawyers with a solo practice may not have a paralegal. 2) A
Law is a very paperwork intensive industry. Now a days you can get away with 1 paralegal serving multiple lawyers, but nobody and I mean nobody goes without a paralegal.
Again small one lawyer firms exist so what you are saying is untrue. They should use paralegals to lighten their work load, but that does not mean they must always use a paralegal.
Smaller shops may have only one person doing the work of a receptionist and paralegal and other things, but they will always have at least one person.
Again I know of one person firms that do not always use a paralegal.
It is inappropriate for a lawyer to have the paralegal check his work, but if you are not going to check it at all, that is incredibly stupid.
You wrote above: "I can easily see a lawyer order their paralegals to fact check their reports" You just contradicted what you wrote.
Stupid as in how the hell did you get into law school and how did they not kick you out.
You literally wrote: "Did they fire their paralegals? Because that would explain why they still have issues. I can easily see a lawyer order their paralegals to fact check their reports ". Do you not remember what you wrote?