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The legal sector has made it through the pandemic, due to law firms applying a mixture of cost-cutting measures and staff going above and beyond to meet client expectations. Week in and week out, for over eighteen months. People have been raising issues of stress, wellbeing and mental health in the legal sector for years now. And recently LexisNexis Bellwether report, found 38% of lawyers saying they would not go into law if they were starting over.

As law firms emerge from the pandemic, they face the challenges of coping with its aftermath while settling on new ways of working in the long-term.

Conveyancers will be glad to hear that the Stamp Duty Holiday has its final cutoff point on September 30th, after which they can forget all about the rush of completions now and in late June. It’s been a stressful 18 months for everyone, but it’s been acute in this profession where a third of conveyancers know someone who’s burned out of the job altogether. But as they rush to get through the backlog of work, they’d do well to keep in mind that it doesn’t have to be this way.

Solicitor entrepreneur Lauren Riley has described how she has met venture capitalists and tech companies interested in her legal app after appearing in the BBC1 show The Apprentice.