Source: Ada Evening NewsHarland Stonecipher deserving of honor
"If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, tho' he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door."
So said Ralph Waldo Emerson, famous American writer and commentator many years ago.
So it was then. So it is today.
But when Harland Stonecipher started his company, Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc., there was no "mousetrap," so to speak, of any kind. His unique vision of supplying a legal services protection plan to the nation was a first. What Stonecipher did was survey the American scene and come to the realization that ours had become a litigious society. People sued at the drop of a hat for almost any reason, and sometimes for no apparent reason.
Incidents that would have been shrugged off and forgotten in a previous era were filling our courts with defendants who had never considered hiring an attorney before they needed one. And many needed one. Worse, what they were finding in their current legal emergency was that hiring an attorney can be a prohibitively costly ordeal in which they had no idea if they were getting their money's worth.
