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Anon 15:22 - You're missing the point completely. Anon 14:38 is absolutely right. The market is self-balancing; if firms needed more solicitors they'd be offering more training contracts. You only need solicitors for specific tasks/roles and you need a healthy ratio of support staff to solicitors.

Whilst you're right, firms will lose the 'gatekeeping' function of solicitorship, those people who qualify will rarely be better off.

If I were the owner of a firm and I needed a junior caseworker, would I hire a freshly qualified solicitor, with no real experience and with all the regulatory hassle and cost that that involves, or would I rather hire a paralegal?

If I were the owner of a firm and I needed a NQ solicitor, would I hire somebody with no real experience who happened to pass the exam, or would I rather promise a NQ position for somebody who has been a paralegal for me for some time and has proved their worth?

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