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It would be fascinating to find out how many LAA employees have ever experienced the realities of running a law firm?

Employees and their management, keeping up to date with demands of an intrusive fundamentalist regulator, the shifting requirements of lenders, the ever increasing demands of insurers, auto-enrolment for pensions, the preparation for the annual audit and property management to name but a few of the burdens solicitors must suffer.

Add to this cocktail the thousand natural shocks solicitors are heir to in terms of emotionally challenged clients.

The LAA, obsessed with criteria and management speak then wonders why solicitors are so angry with a remote QUANGO creating ever more hurdles to overcome and boxes to tick, while helping the client becomes an aim lost in the regulatory spaghetti