This probably comes as a big surprise to a lot of idealistic people on Reddit, but there basic economics of supply and demand still reigns supreme.

Law school and passing the bar is neither cheap nor easy. There's a limited supply of lawyers, and of those, few put in the time and money to become lawyers to live in poverty while donating their skills and time for free or the peanuts legal aid pays.

You can pass all the laws about people's 'right' to the services of a highly skilled professional all you want, but without a realistic plan of how and where you'll get that much supply of the highly skilled labor, it's moot.