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Whether someone wants to become a solicitor or not is a matter or choice and isn't the problem anyway: the problem is that solicitors' firms cannot be trusted to behave responsibly in their dealings with entrants into the profession, as this article clearly demonstrates.

If solicitors' firms can get away with not doing the right thing then they will most certainly not do the right thing; and yet when they are subjected to a minimum wage imperative, firms whine at the affront to their integrity that they should be mistrusted so!

Should we be surprised...Blackadder style? Not when firms crow at the affront to their integrity on matters of gender pay, diversity and racial monitoring and do nothing but smokescreen their shortcomings ("we have 50% female partners/staff, we have met all diversity expectations and deserve an award" - yeah but what are you paying them as opposed to what you would have paid to the men otherwise!)

The problem is that law firms think that they are the law and that accordingly their moral discretion is unimpeachable: they need reminding, brutally, that they are not the law and they should be held accountable for what they have done to positively benefit the profession as a whole (and called out individually and publicly for weaselling out of doing the right thing because the rule forcing them to has been relaxed).