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QualitySolicitors to put desks in 500 WHSmith branches

"It is an OK way of getting ad hoc, low to modest value transactional business ..." If only! No client one would want to have is going to be recruited via W H Smith. For a start, the decent middle class type of client would be too embarrassed at the possibility of being seen in public taking `legal' advice, fearing that a neighbour would see them and asume they were discussing divorce proceedings. No, the only type of client likely to be obtained is either the loony, with the carrier bag full of evidence that the government is spying on them through their TV or the client that in more generous times would have been eligible for legal aid, but can no way afford private client fees. In any case, any firm that needs to use the word `Quality' is almost by definition crap. It's like a car salesman calling himself `Honest Harry' - if you need to say you're honest it's because you aren't. Oh, and what hapened to those `several top 100 firms' that were due to sign up?

7-Apr-2011

4:19 pm