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Co-op ABS plans to create thousands of legal jobs

The level of snobbery towards these sorts of announcements never fails to astound me. 3,000 news jobs has to be good for the sector yet all people can talk about is substandard services. When it comes to consumer legal services not everyone wants gold plated costs from a lawyer working in premium rent priced offices. Most non-corporate clients want a service they can rely on at a price they can afford. The arrival of Quality Solicitors on our TV screens has to benefit the entire profession because it persuades people to change their perceptions of the profession - we are not all no win no fee people. As for being based 40 miles outside Bristol, perhaps CLS doesn't want the kind of stuffy lawyers you find in city centres- the people who are there to progress up a lockstep by showing the boss they have squeezed the maximum amount of the client by billing the optimum number of hours. What people want is a reliable service, quickly and cheaply. Those that are complaining about the economic boost will probably find themselves in the jobs market in a few years because they themselves have failed to adapt to the modern world.

24-May-2012

2:16 pm