RBS: some recovery in sight but weak demand and 5,000 surplus solicitors still define turbulent legal market

Disaggregated, wrestling with tight margins, reliant on defensive mergers and probably still with more than 5,000 un-needed solicitors in England and Wales – the good news is that there actually is some good news in a new report on the profession from the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).

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