“It doesn’t happen these days, you don’t meet the lawyers on the other side any longer. “In the days I qualified when you did a conveyancing transaction solicitors used to meet and hand over the deeds. “The biggest change is the impact that information technology has had on us all, including our profession,” he said. The fourth generation of his family to work at Black Country firm Higgs & Sons, Mr Higgs admits he has mixed feelings about technology’s unstoppable rise. When he started out the photocopier was just in the process of being invented but he has gone on to see information technology revolutionise the way people do business. When David Higgs was admitted to the solicitors’ roll in 1963 Harold Wilson had not long been elected leader of the Labour Party, the Beatles were basking in the success of their debut Please Please Me album and the sordid details of the Profumo affair were just being revealed.įifty years on and Mr Higgs, now 73, is still practising in a profession which he says has been transformed by technology.
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