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@Jacqueline Emmerson

I'd love to know what your turnover of staff is like if you treat them like the mere commodities you have displayed here.

The fact is it's bloody hard being a trainee. I should know. I was one a few years ago. Having a law degree and LPC under your belt is great, but most of what you learn about the law and the practicalities of being a solicitor comes from your training contract.

You try to learn how to do something while being given more work than you can cope with. Then when you go home you're exhausted, but still frequently trying to find the time and the energy to look things up in the night to fill the gaps in your knowledge you identified that day.

The stress on trainees is immense because unlike someone who's been doing something for years and has a bank of their own precedents that they know inside out etc.. you are actually trying to work out what you're doing as you're doing it.

If you that that experience is worth less than the minimum because you get to be a solicitor at the end of two years, then I'd guess you have no clue how legal practice works from any other perspective than a partner. Being a trainee now is very different and a lot more pressured from when you did your training contract. Try to see things from their perspective for a change.

I don't envy your employees one iota.