bit. Not having come across it myself, I'm intrigued, please do tell all!other strange fetish bullshit
mf1 said:Practising solicitor responds.
8. If I go to a doctor, I can hardly negotiate a fixed fee before he examines me. I'm not a doctor and I don't know what is wrong with me. Similarly with a solicitor. My clients come to me with their problems and their preferred solution - which often has no basis in fact or reality. My function is to examine the problem and try and come up with a range of solutions which may or may not include the clients preferred option.
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Betsy Og said:the point about maybe needing "pull" to get going is not a cut at any young solicitors or barristers, I think its just sad that the cream, or enough of it, might not rise to the top because they havent the connections.
ubiquitous said:Most solicitors are self employed.
ubiquitous said:The vast majority of accountancy practices in Ireland are self-employed sole trader businesses. As are the vast majority of GP doctor practices. Although I don't have statistics at hand, I would be surprised if the same doesn't apply to solicitors and architects.
many other professions are predominantly self-employed so you make your own way - its only where professions are structured as firms that the whole "pull" thing might get going.
ubiquitous said:This appear to indicate that "pull" in the context of recruitment policies is a problem in professional firms, but not so in sole practice firms. ).
ubiquitous said:Btw, there is no difference between a sole practitioner and a sole practice firm.
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appear to be me to be largely meaningless.in the context of "pull", it's mainly employment prospects in firms that the issue would come up.
ubiquitous said:It is customary for anyone who sets themselves up as an accountant, solicitor, auctioneer, mortgage broker, architect, engineer etc to denote themselves as a firm regardless of whether they have employees. As such some of your comments such as
appear to be me to be largely meaningless.
comment on the substantive points
Vanilla said:The problem is that you don't seem to have any substantive points.
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