On the solicitor side, it leads to
desperate fee cutting leading to corner cutting and incompetence (assuredly not mitigated, but worsened, by the evil of title insurance), while on the barrister side it leads to churning and dragging out, often unreasonably, of files and engaging in ever more frivolous law suits.
Today, top producers have to fight
fee cutting and, unfortunately, poor business practices by the
desperate who eke out a living.