Powerful tools people need and are seeking

Wayne Hassay, Managing Partner of MSH, was pleased to be quoted and cited in the Michigan Law Review (Vol. 124, Oct. 2025), “Legal Insurance and Its Limits,” by Stanford Law professor Nora Freeman Engstrom. This article takes an important look at the history of legal plans and how that history might portend the future. As a practitioner working with a modern legal plan every day, Wayne sees that the plans have learned from this history.

Well‑capitalized, thoroughly marketed, well‑designed modern plans operating across communities and household budgets provide ready access to a lawyer, reaching many who have been outside the legal market. In a time of unmet and unrecognized legal needs and large numbers of self‑represented litigants alongside a shortage of lawyers serving everyday legal needs, modern plans deliver technology‑aided, at‑scale, more affordable, more accessible, timely advice and limited‑scope services, plus clear next steps and when necessary effective representation, all from a wide and deep network of independent attorneys. These are powerful tools people need and are seeking.

Technologies and market forces are eroding the attorney‑client relationship, sometimes in the name of access to justice, but too often by marginalizing lawyers. Meanwhile, as the profession debates about emerging competition, legal plans, long‑established and lawyer‑approved, deliver robust solutions and keep lawyering in lawyers’ hands. That serves clients, the profession, and the public.