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Sorry everyone, but as long as there are people prepared to work for peanuts, the people paying will pay peanuts. Anon of 08.41 is right.

When I was a law student I seem to recall that there were about 30,000 solicitors ... and the Law Society thought that was a huge number. I know! I was one of the unfortunates who had to do the then new 12 month course and the Law Society Finals Part II, and the Law Society made it absolutely clear that the aim was to reduce the number of new entrants into the profession.

I thought the Law Society overdid it and entirely unjustifiably wrecked the legal careers of many thousands of people who would have made perfectly good solicitors, but it did result in a tightening of supply that did have its positive side, eg better quality of life for trainees and junior solicitors than appears now to be the case ... and I don't recall hearing any complaints about pay and conditions from criminal defence lawyers either ...

Put another way, the profession could do with something like The Black Death to afflict it in order to even up the balance of power a bit between us and the govt, and, generally, between us and the fee-paying public.

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