Lisa,

You are trying to compare apples to oranges, and the comparison is not valid. Until someone has undergone the rigors of law school and preparation for the bar exam he/she really has no idea of the difficulty encountered. With respect to an attorney having regained his license after disbarment, there is no guarantee. Much depends on whether he contested it an lost or voluntarily withdrew and the natureof the cause for diosbarrment. There are attorneys who have repeatedly applied for reinstatement, and have been denied. You seem to think that it is simply a matter of filing an application for reinstatement, and that it is granted as a pro forma matter. Such is not the case.

In so far as your friend that has completed law school in two years, he/she has done something even more difficult. He/she must have accelerated his/her education by going to law school through the summer months none stop. This is an option presented to law students, but most elect not to take it because the work load is heavy enough that they need the additional time to absorb the content of each course.

While the abstractors of which you speak may have undergraduate degrees and possibly advanced degrees...none of them can ever suffer the ignominy of disbarrment...simply because they have no license to lose. Even if they have the degrees of which you speak, few if any have taken courses in abstracting in the process of earning those degrees. Their experience most often is gained through several months of on the job training following graduation. If they screw up...it is a matter of an insurance claim, and not having their license to practice lifted. My point is why leave that problem in the hands of one of your employees. The carrot and stick approach that I used with my attorney abstractors worked. The were well compensated for a job well done, but by the same token they were motivated not to make mistakes and lose that compensation.