Depends what firm it is but any decent place they will be closely supervised. Some clients only deal with the NQ in my team but one of us has checked everything over in the background. More concerningly there are some firms who seem to leave trainees to deal with things with no supervision until they think they’re ready to exchange.
I did a load of stuff as a trainee in a rotation seat as a first seat trainee but I had a great supervisor. Property trainees at my current place are all well looked after and quite capable of doing the job.
I’ve never understood how conveyancing is, for the most part, so simple a 12 year old could do it and yet has the highest percentage of incompetent and negligent solicitors working in the practice area.
I’ve never understood how conveyancing is, for the most part, so simple a 12 year old could do it and yet has the highest percentage of incompetent and negligent solicitors working in the practice area.
Presumably it’s keeping so many plates spinning at the same time that is the challenge. That and staying awake.
It’s actually the pricing demands of clients which mean that many firms are using unqualified staff with checklists with the file only getting a cursory review from a solicitor just before exchange. For example Premier Property Lawyers asked me multiple times about cladding on a listed 1930’s block because they had to be able to tick their box. I think it was them as well who sent me a list of questions about the sewer under a building which I answered by pointing out they weren’t relevant for a third floor flat.
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Have faith. I was a crack conveyancer back when a trainee. I'd read all the books. Sharp as a tack in a suit. I cared. Useless now.
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Do you even have to be regulated to be a conveyancer?
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Yes.
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Thanks all!
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Depends what firm it is but any decent place they will be closely supervised. Some clients only deal with the NQ in my team but one of us has checked everything over in the background. More concerningly there are some firms who seem to leave trainees to deal with things with no supervision until they think they’re ready to exchange.
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If it’s a trainee who has come up through the ranks of being a property secretary, then paralegal etc. should be fine if supervised by an old hand.
If it’s a trainee doing a rotation seat then not, and he needs to ask for someone more experienced, or change firms.
Subject of course to what he’s paying for fees. If it’s cheap as chips then caveat emptor.
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"A crack conveyancer"
<drives up in blacked-out BMW>
<arranges for sale of rock (subject to searches, and to complete in not less than one week's time>
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I did a load of stuff as a trainee in a rotation seat as a first seat trainee but I had a great supervisor. Property trainees at my current place are all well looked after and quite capable of doing the job.
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When I was a year one dr I used to look after pretty sick people at night. Most of them made it. Can’t be much harder to do a few searches
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I’ve never understood how conveyancing is, for the most part, so simple a 12 year old could do it and yet has the highest percentage of incompetent and negligent solicitors working in the practice area.
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I don't get why searches are still a thing . Can't they stick it all on block chain or summat
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I’ve never understood how conveyancing is, for the most part, so simple a 12 year old could do it and yet has the highest percentage of incompetent and negligent solicitors working in the practice area.
Presumably it’s keeping so many plates spinning at the same time that is the challenge. That and staying awake.
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It’s actually the pricing demands of clients which mean that many firms are using unqualified staff with checklists with the file only getting a cursory review from a solicitor just before exchange. For example Premier Property Lawyers asked me multiple times about cladding on a listed 1930’s block because they had to be able to tick their box. I think it was them as well who sent me a list of questions about the sewer under a building which I answered by pointing out they weren’t relevant for a third floor flat.
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Hot water cylinder jacket included in the sale - y/n?
What? It was cold.
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