There are 9 million bicycles in Bejjing - thats a fact, its a thing we cant deny.... Katie Mellua. There are 120,000 solicitors in the UK... For years during career coaching, careers talks and general work I have used the figure of about 105,000 and never did I expect to see that the figure had risen to 120,000, particularly in recent years with the recession, many thousands of redundancies, the near collapse of legal recruitment (see the back of the gazette for the last few years to see the lack of business in 2008-2010). Where on earth are all these solicitors working? Well, firstly bear in mind the following when looking at these figures: 1. This is the number of solicitors on the Roll. I am on the Roll, but not practising since 2003. 2. Solicitors on the roll include rather a large number of people in between jobs, lawyers who qualified as solicitors and then did not continue, and 3. Solicitors who have left the profession but like the status (I confess to being one of these!). The...
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