Please tell me we are not going to be nationalizing the legal profession?
If we were to nationalize the legal profession, chances are with wages held down by the gov't like with teachers, the effect would be fewer of the top tier of college graduates going into the profession. With more coming from the bottom quadrants of college performance, that would mean a generalized decline in the overal skill of lawyers in general in the name of equality.
That said on the flip side, the lack of access to good representation is a threat to due process of law and equality before the law because it means varying outcomes based on the amount of wealth that one has.
That has to be some sort of happy medium where skill is rewarded and yet the poor and working class receive high quality representation as well.