English judges are known for choosing their words very carefully:  In this context, the recent Commercial Court judgment of Mrs Justice Cockerill in the case of […]

Why young lawyers are turning away from alcohol-related social events. At a recent Sunday lunch party, a middle-aged lawyer reached in front of me to take […]

Ask people to name a famous lawyer in history and they would struggle. After all, the most prominent lawyers in English history – such as Sir […]

A child born into a royal family cannot be unborn from it, merely hidden away in the hope that people forget about him. That has been […]

It’s a contentious question. So out of curiosity, I searched ‘greatest ever lawyer’ and hit return. Up they came. A photo montage of Google’s greatest in […]

That we finally have another general election has been widely anticipated. So much for the Fixed-term Parliaments Act – something of a misnomer since this will […]

The night club. The speedboat. The mob. The booze cruise. The spread of jazz. The cocktail. What do they all have in common? They are the […]

It’s law firm directory season once again. Marketing professionals everywhere are celebrating the rankings of their firms and individual partners in the latest editions of the […]

I can still recall the excitement of my first Amazon order in 1996 – a book delivered from amazon.com in the US took just a few […]

Corruption in Panama is nothing new. The country’s notorious former leader, Manuel Noriega, was convicted by a US court in 1992 of racketeering, drug smuggling, and […]

Two recent media stories have featured prominently in relation to where Britain’s drug laws are heading. In isolation, the arguments supporting each of them make sense, […]

An early mantra for Trump’s 2020 presidential election campaign has already made its mark at Republican rallies. The antithesis of woke, Donald supporters now break into […]