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Tue 02 Feb 2007Barristers sign up to reforms in dealings with the publicThe legal profession has bowed to the pressure of external calls for reform by agreeing major changes in the way it interacts with the public.The cost of employing a lawyer may drop as a result of the changes agreed within the profession over the past month in response to a critical Competition Authority report in December.