Solicitors: Recession has hit us too

Solicitors have come out fighting against “false impressions” of exorbitant fees and excessive profits, saying their profession has suffered from the recession as much as any other sector.

A report for the Law Society says incomes for self-employed solicitors plummeted 43% on average over 2007-2012 and that one in five legal sector employees lost their jobs.

Law Society director general Ken Murphy said: “Contrary to the proposition that’s sometimes advanced that the solicitors’ profession has not been severely hit by the recession, far from it is the case.