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From time to time we are told how well the Clifford Chances, Addleshaws, etc are doing. Time was, not all that long ago really, when we all shared in that fabulously profitable work. Firms did Wills, Probate, Conveyancing, with a bit of civil and criminal litigation, ... and some company - commercial work. It was, on the whole, a financially strong legal services sector at all levels across the country. How did we get to the point where a few firms only do the really fabulously profitable work and refuse to do ordinary High Street work as a normal part of their mix of work? I ask because I get enquiry after enquiry from people who need legal advice and assistance where I simply don't have the money to help them, and, what is more, whilst I know that Addleshaws, Freshfields, Clifford Chance et al do have the money I know that these ordinary people won't be given a look in. For years I referred these people in the Greater Manchester area to Pannone, but that has had to stop since Pannone got rid of its High St practice side of things, (probably for the same reasons that all the Addleshaws of this world did), leaving me with only Irwin Mitchell to whom I can refer these people. Put another way, I think that we could do with some meaningful analysis by the Law Society of what has happened and what, if anything, it proposes to do about it.

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