Germanshepherdsmum
*Susysue*, as a retired solicitor I take great exception to your offensive comment that various professionals ‘seem to enjoy ripping people off’. When you consult a professional you pay for the expertise they can give from years of study and practice. Do you expect them to be paid at the same sort of rate as the cashier at Lidl? You would probably have perceived my fees as as a partner in a City law firm doing very specialist work to be extortionate but I can assure that I have never, ever ‘ripped anyone off’ as you call it, nor would anyone in the practices I have worked at. The same applies to vets, who have studied for many years in order to qualify and do a very difficult job often at unsociable hours.
Ahh, another high handed lawyer, full of their own self importance!!! I too studied for a degree so get off your high horse!!! And any of us who have had the misfortune to have to use lawyers eg conveyancing, family law, civil law etc will know exactly where I am coming from with feeling "ripped off" How the hell your profession think any of you are worth £250 upwards AN HOUR is beyond me. Plus you all sit there, with a stop watch on for every minute you engage with clients on the phone etc. Even an email costs about £18. Absolutely ridiculous... no empathy for clients situations, just money grabbers. Don't know how you sleep at night!!