Hot on the heels of announcing our engagement comes less joyous news.
Geeklawyer is having to end writing on the blog. This has been necessitated as part of previously secret negotiations with the Bar Council who are upset at the image of the Bar portrayed by it.
It wasn’t helped by Geeklawyer’s occasional mocking of their technological ineptness: unfortunately it seems that they knew how to use the Intarweb and were watching all along. Quite how they found the semi-anonymous author is unknown, but they have. Geeklawyer has been threatened with disciplinary proceedings and “certain disbarment” unless he terminates the blog. An agreement was reached whereby he might hand it over to more responsible lawyers.
In parting Geeklawyer had to decide whether to reveal his real identity or not.
Not.
The hope is that he will become a living legend at the Bar. A story hinted at darkly by pupilmasters cautioning their pupils; whispered tales in the members bar at Lincoln’s Inn. And one day encouraged by his example they will rise up and storm the gates of the Bar Council and place the council members severed heads upon staves outside the High Court in the Strand.
Geeklawyer will now surrender the blog to Ruthie. Expect more tedious stories about glass ceilings for women, girly rugby, why overweight women deserve respect and how awful the profession is to women.
This is terrible news; one of my favourite sites deprived of half of its writing genius
I’m sure Ruthie will do a fine job but RIP geeklawyer
alternatively, could this possibly be an April Fool? I can’t see if it were posted before or after 12pm…
GEEKLAWYER
IN MEMORIAM… AD ASTRA….
Alas… poor Geeklawyer…. the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune….. we compared him to a summer’s day… but…it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
I like this place and willingly do waste my time in it. Can one desire too much of a good thing?
Geeklawyer… you and I are past our dancing days but you have had to give the devil his due… We have heard the chimes at midnight.
I fear ‘they’ may not have approved of the sentiment… “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers”
But…like others… you have recognised… Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Geeklawyer, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings
All the world ’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts… The game is up. There’s daggers in men’s smiles… but, as you know… Fair is foul, and foul is fair.
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall… This is the short and the long of it. So wise so young, they say, do never live long.. That it should come to this!
Yond Geeklawyer has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. This was the noblest blogger of them all.
We will remember you…
Charon…
PS…. do you want a lift across the Styx? Only a silver coin…. and you get to keep it…
[…] Geeklawyer: In memoriam Filed under: Charon — charonqc @ 12:06 am It would appear that Geeklawyer has to hand the reins of office to Ruthie… he has been rumbled. A changing of the Guard…. […]
Sorry to see you go. A delightful place to waste preciuos study time! Ruthie? a Patronising dimunitive already!
I’d never patronise Ruthie: she’s really quite clever for a girl.
Yeah, and sometimes I even pretend to be stupid just to lull you into a false sense of security..
I am lulled.
goodness all sorts of new names popping up at the thought of your demise Geekboy..
ahhh
new souls for the faith.
Yes, nice to see people de-lurking. But leave them alone Ruthie they are impoverished students not rich lawyers
Not only impoverished, an old age pensioner too, Without a pension now! Anyway. what is it about biker chicks?
Oh Yes… Ruthie is definitely clever!
How are things GL….. ?
I just can’t bring myself to believe it is the end …. I have The Doors song in my mind… Jim Morrison……..
I can’t say much, even posting these de minimis comments is to risk debarment, but there are things afoot. I can say no more.
Yes Ruthie is clever - she has manipulated me so often. But I blame myself had I not jokingly temporarily relabeled the site ‘RuthieLawyer’ a while ago I would not have installed in her the desire for total possession and kicked into train her devious manoeuvrings.
But Geeklawyer is a Master of the Game and will counter-intrigue.