since the Law Society debased the profession at the alter of greed

There's a lot of legal work that is no longer done by solicitors (or barristers, but the bar society has been better at protecting its own interests). Eg professional will writing companies may not even have any legally trained employees, let alone qualified solicitors. Residential conveyancing is now largely done by factories of paralegals.

Never has a union done so much to harm its own members.

Coupled with that, there has been an explosion in the number of solicitors working in-house, where common parlance is to refer matters to legal or 'the lawyers' - and indeed many in-house lawyers may be barristers, legal executives, or not even qualified.

Given half a chance I'd ditch my solicitor title as for the type of work I do it's an irrelevance and it confers nothing but the ballache of being regulated and having to fill out pointless paperwork for the Law Society, but my employer prefers to have the cloak of legal privilege from time to time.

Posted By: CWC, Mar 8, 20:03:28