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Legal Services Bill

  • 28-09-2016 8:52pm
    #1
    Kings Inns or bust
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    In my first ever incarnation here, at the start of what might be laughably termed 'my legal career' I remember much gnashing of teeth in relation to the end being nigh for the split legal profession, the germans taking over all the solicitor offices and Griffith and Independent colleges 'competing' with the King's Inns.

    In typical too lazy to google it and realising that the replies here will be far more entertaining... what's the story?


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  • #2
    hullaballoo
    Administrators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,781 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭hullaballoo


    Do you remember the PR spin that was put on the Bill when it was first announced and how it was going to keep us greedy lawyers in check and reduce our fees and streamline our costs and be better for consumers?

    It's the opposite of that.


  • #3
    Kings Inns or bust
    Closed Accounts Posts: 631 ✭✭✭Kings Inns or bust


    hullaballoo wrote: »
    Do you remember the PR spin that was put on the Bill when it was first announced and how it was going to keep us greedy lawyers in check and reduce our fees and streamline our costs and be better for consumers?

    It's the opposite of that.

    Oh yes I remember that, and rubbing my hands together thinking I'd a ticket to ride. I then had the pleasure of a few tastes of reality in internships, including getting driven up to Cloverhill by an extremely generous and nice barrister driving quite possibly the oldest, rustiest Toyota on God's green earth and another explaining €250 on a Friday was a '****ing brilliant day'.

    Frankly if I hadn't have found the majority of people I'd encountered thus far to be the most entertaining and generous people I'd ever met in 36 years on planet Earth I'd probably have gone and found a proper job by now.


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