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How has the economic confusion of the Covid-19 pandemic changed legal recruitment?
Little about the past 15 months has unfolded as the legal sector expected. Elite City firms furloughed staff using public funds, only to decide to voluntarily repay the exchequer when the flow of instructions did not dry up. Over at the bar, the prediction that the economic fallout from the pandemic’s lockdowns and restrictions would see 80% of chambers close, if no state subsidy was forthcoming, remains unfulfilled. And back in March 2020, when activity in the property market froze, the subsequent boom in prices and transactions was not predicted.