It might be a perverse observation but while the Law Society’s decision to cancel its annual conference is a smart bit of politics for Chancery Lane, the move also marks a fairly uninspiring day for the profession.
It is certainly true that the conference had rapidly declined in recent years in terms of interest from the City and the media. An event that before the body’s mid-90s implosion would have attracted 1,000 solicitors from a genuine cross-section of the profession had become a gathering mainly for conference junkies and high street backwoodsmen.
