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Clearly, I'm missing something here. The list of High Street firms that have gone bust is as long as my arm, and I know that the regulatory environment in this country has much to do with that.

I wouldn't like being urinated on either, but if I knew that I was going to get paid for putting up with it and that there was a good pension at the end of it, then I might find it all worthwhile.

Knowing that sooner or later you are going to get a consumer complaint that is only really about not wanting to pay and that London will move heaven and earth to find in favour of the ex-client is stressful, particularly when I also have my bills to pay.

I'll be alright, but the long list of firms that have gone belly up and the fact that just about every single firm in the country that can afford not to have Mr & Mrs Average as clients with their accident, boundary dispute, fight over the children, or the residential conveyance, has stopped doing private client work, but that outside England & Wales firms are delighted to have their business tells an important story.

Put another way, only people who don't know any better can think that this is OK. Well, it is not OK. That stress levels might be higher elsewhere does not mean that current stress levels in the legal profession are OK.

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