New management
By 1925 it was all happening over at 37 Essex Street. With the Law of Property Acts soon due to terrify the nation’s conveyancers, the editor cum proprietor wisely decided to get out, save for a seat on the board, and leave the fee simples to somebody else. Mr J M Lightwood was poached from the top job at the Solicitors Journal to become editor in chief of its competitor. He appears to have been the ‘JML’ hiding behind the weekly articles on the new legislation, the penance to which he subjected himself over the next twelve months. If there had been some conference organisers around willing to take over the Royal Albert Hall or a Lyons Corner House, they would have made a killing. As it was, the only educational advertisements carried by The Law Journal on the property legislation were by Halifax
