Graduate Conveyancer with 2 years experience - would you?

Tiglet2

If you instructed the local firm near me, there are five partners/solicitors (two are part time), two licensed conveyances, two legal executives, and some graduate law students currently gaining experience and working towards their LPC/training contract. The rest are a mixture of unqualified with years of working experience and unqualified with little to 2 years experience plus secretaries and clerks. In all about 40 people employed. So, all instructions will have a named partner/licensed conveyancer/legal exec but it will be their teams that do the work. The work will be supervised and checked at intervals, but if you think an experienced solicitor is going to work on the file from start to end you will be wrong. 

Megaross

TBG01 said:

delays can be incredy costly and an inexperienced solicitor will take longer

Contrary to popular belief, a lot of the delays aren't down to the Solicitor. 

They can be though, and how proactive your solicitor is can make a big difference - one with the contacts and the knowledge to deal with properties in your local area can be a lot quicker.

Having a solicitor who will just do the job is very different to having one who will get things done and give you sound advice based on years of industry experience.

It pays to have the right people working for you, might cost a bit extra but it's worth it.