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Let's face the present reality:

1) The reputation of the solicitors profession is already ruined so just accept that it is no longer reputable or a profession and diversity appears to mean that it needs non-graduates and those without any qualifications so that being unfit or unable to qualify is no longer a bar to entry for all who want to do it.

2) If you are a graduate, work hard at staying up to date with the law and being a good lawyer, just transfer to the bar to enjoy all the free advocacy training the Inns provide, greater respect from judges and the public, dirt cheap PII from the Bar Mutual and simply remain in your firm as a direct access barrister. It's a no brainer!

3) The bar have always been great at protecting themselves so why not let them protect you too? Just ditch the Law Society and the SRA and embrace the Bar Council and the BSB who are far easier (and cheaper) to deal with.

4) If all you do is conveyancing, wills, probate etc then how can you resist what the Council for Licensed Conveyancers have to offer with their light touch regulation and master PII policy?

I say let the SRA continue to regulate all the 'qualified' solicitors out of the profession so that it is just left with the uneducated dregs who would otherwise be estate agents or work for banks or insurance companies.