The Law Society’s laudable promise to do more to represent in-house solicitors must not obscure the greater challenge facing the national Law Society to improve its representation of the 80% of all solicitors who are in private practice (Chancery Lane pledges to raise in-house game, 18 May).
The internal debate regarding the extent to which the society will be able to make a practising fee levy beyond the cost of hived off regulation and compliance boards – which are up and running in shadow form – has rightly caused the society to focus on the needs of its wide church of solicitors and on affordability.
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