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The way trainees are treated by the profession is quite frankly worthy of an Oprah award acceptance speech and black dress.

I have known LPC graduates left dangling for years as to whether they will receive any training contract (during which time they have earned many multiples of their salaries for their firms) only to receive minimum wage salaries for the entire duration of their traineeships.

But to listen to firms: it's all the ungrateful trainees fault; after all we've done for them.

Seriously though, solicitors firms are some of the worst employers in the UK: their Victorian mill owner attitudes towards their talent (fee earners are still being listed in every business account as liabilities rather than as assets) is killing the quality of its participants.

If you make the grade!

I mean seriously, the majority of partners in today's firms have no more arrived by talent than a parliamentary front bench.

They were just there because when partnerships were being assigned they still retained a pulse and when they eventually shuffle off (as they should, instead of lingering on as parasitical consultants with their vampire shareholder mentalities of pinching every penny) it is only to be hoped that new business attitudes will reverse this deplorable trend.