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 […]
Glass of champagne? ‘No, I‘d rather make hats instead.’
Cicero – the simple art of legal advocacy
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 […]
The judgment of Prince Andrew
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 […]
The greatest ever lawyer? It’s horses for courses
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 […]
Law firms: time to lock-up before the Brexit election
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 […]
Prohibition: 100 years on from the US alcohol ban
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 […]
Do Chambers and the Legal 500 have a diversity problem?
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 […]
Amazon: the future of online legal services?
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 […]
Black Cube expose judicial and political corruption in Panama
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 […]
What’s your poison? Britain’s drug laws go to pot
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, […]
Lock them up or set them free: Boris and British prisons
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 […]
London law firms go sky high, but who pays?
As law firm revenues and profits continue to reach new heights so do the buildings which house their industrious lawyers, most especially in London. The scope […]