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I have worked as a qualified solicitor in the conveyancing business for 20 years. Over the most recent few of those years, I, and most likely all of you reading, have practised through the Covid pandemic, through the stamp duty holiday, and through those fateful final days of the Liz Truss era.
In these brief years, I have seen a lot of solicitors leave the profession, many of them completely burned out, and a lot of new starters enter – young, qualified, and at the foot of their careers. It’s the biggest staff turnaround I’ve ever witnessed, and it should be invigorating the sector.
But they are coming into a job and an industry that looks nothing like it did twenty years ago; a job that has lapsed into the mundane.
As solicitors in modern conveyancing, we no longer practise law.
Instead, we spend most of our time arguing about whether a boiler has been serviced, or electrics have been tested, not the legal points of the title.
This is largely due to a change in client expectations. It’s gone from nobody caring whether or not the boiler has been serviced, to the buyer’s solicitors saying, ‘we’re going to advise our client not to proceed if you don’t get your client to service the boiler prior to completion’.
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