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A High Street Solicitor on Tesco Law

August 20, 2009

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Swordplay commends Alex Wade’s piece in the Times today on the slow death of the high street law firm. The article is doubly interesting for its human subtext, for the central focus of Wade’s piece is his father Tony, a sole practitioner for 36 years. We suspect the piece was not altogether an easy one to formulate, for in highlighting the downsides of Tesco law and asking his father about them, Wade Jnr. was inevitably posing questions about the apparent autumn not merely of what was formerly a significant tranche of the legal profession but of his own father’s career.

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