Unexperienced solicitor - wwyd

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Today I found out that the law firm's partner appointed an unexperienced solicitor to take care about our house purchase (this solicitor has 3 months experience in another law firm and 9 months in current law firm). A bit worry that he does not have enough experience and can mess up. His name is not even on the firm's website, where usually you can check who is working for this law firm. Should I speak with the partner and ask him to give our purchase to more experienced solicitor or I'm just over reacting? We have an overage clause in our purchase which we want to negotiate and make sure it's done in right way.

As above. Locate a partner on the website and contact them and keep contacting them until the case is given to someone who is there.

I don’t see that part time is anything to do with experience. How long post qualification are they? Very unusual for a young solicitor to be part time. More likely a parent who is returning to work. We have always had access to legal assistants who can find out how things are progressing. Never spoken to a partner. Don’t want to pay for that either!

She is newly qualified and part-timer. We have managed to catch her on the phone, so there is some problem with their system, as she said it constantly crashes (not sure it's true), she confirmed she did nothing as she has a lot of cases and just has not have anough time for everything. She also said she need to discuss our case with the partner, as she said our case is a bit too complicated for her to deal with alone.... So will get update on Monday