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Charity reports rise in struggling solicitors

09 July 2025
Issue: 8124 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Charities , Mental health
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The Solicitors’ Charity, which helps practitioners with emotional, physical, financial and professional difficulties, received three times its usual number of requests for support last year

The charity’s Big Report 2024, published last week, showed it gave £1.17m in financial and wellbeing grants through 861 separate awards, including helping solicitors get rid of debt.

Nick Gallagher, the charity’s CEO, said: ‘Solicitors continue to face mounting pressures and the surge in emotional support referrals shows just how deeply many solicitors are struggling. Our role as a safety net is more vital than ever.’

Find out more at www.thesolicitorscharity.org.

Issue: 8124 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Charities , Mental health
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