A new survey has been commissioned showing that 4 out of 10 solicitors would NOT encourage anyone to follow in their footsteps. Wesleyan for Lawyers managed to get hold of 103 'lawyers' to conduct this poll, which is pretty poor considering there are over 120,000 solicitors on the Roll in the UK and considerably more support staff and non-qualified fee earners. Very unrepresentative and a bit of a non-news story! However I suspect the real figure is something above 60%. Why? 7 reasons. I cannot imagine anyone who deals with the Legal Aid Agency wanting to encourage anyone else to follow in their footsteps. High street solicitors who have not got to partnership status are unlikely to suggest to anyone else that it really is a good idea to run up debts of £44,000 going through the education and training bits before earning a maximum salary of £40,000 for the remainder of their career. City lawyers in my experience seem to hate their jobs, themselves, the lo...
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