September 30, 2007 – 8:01 pm
Readers will recall Ruthie, Geeklawyer’s ejected co-blogger who shuffled off tearfully to run a little read blog called Ruthieslaw. Ruthie is taking part in a 6 week trial at a crown court where she will be carrying the bags of a proper lawyer, a barrister not a solicitor-inadequate, into court.
Not terribly demanding one might think […]
By Geeklawyer
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Posted in MysteryQC, Ruthie
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Tagged Barrister, Crown Court, defendant, MysteryQC, prosecution, Ruthie, sex, solicitor, stress, trial
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September 30, 2007 – 7:27 pm
One thing all we lawyers need - be we solicitors or the senior end of the profession - are punters. It always strikes Geeklawyer, and he has said so before, as a bit weird that so many lawyers find this repellent. LegalWeek has an interesting article in which lawyers explain that acting as a salesman […]
September 28, 2007 – 4:30 pm
Geeklawyer spent last weekend in Otley Yorkshire with Harry visiting a friend and occasional Geeklawyer commenter James. The Otley Folk Festival was the, thin, excuse for a mega drinking session. While many towns claim to have the highest number of pubs per head of population, Otley can back it up. We consumed our bodyweight in […]
September 27, 2007 – 4:05 pm
Attentive readers with long memories may recall that Geeklawyer is around 300th in line to the Burmese throne. He therefore watches the unfolding events in that benighted land with horror. Only North Korea can challenge Burma as the worst place in the World to live. But whereas North Korea is nation gripped […]
September 25, 2007 – 2:59 pm
Geeklawyer has been quiet of late due to attending various conferences and spending a long weekend in Yorkshire. He was intending to refrain from blogging for a few days more but has been outraged to see that Ruthie is attempting to usurp his role as social organiser for the law bloggers drinking contest.
Fortunately for […]
September 19, 2007 – 12:04 am
A flying post this one.
Geeklawyer just finished the SCL conference and my heavens how much fun was that! He discovered a new source of envy: academics who spend their time going from one conference to the next in a perpetual round of presenting papers. Goodness, he’s jealous.
The conference itself was just as billed: “a conference […]
September 13, 2007 – 7:15 pm
Tarek Dergoul is suing the British government over complicity in his his torture at Guantanamo by America. The story is the usual one: Mr Dergoul like so many other victims of the Evil Empire’s “War on Terror” was in the wrong place at the wrong time. When the US offers a ‘no questions asked’ large […]
September 12, 2007 – 7:17 pm
Pavarotti’s death was terrible: a great singer lost to his art. But nonetheless a punter of Geeklawyer’s sent him some dreadfully distasteful humour that caused much offence. He repeats it here solely so that you are forewarned and not as shocked and offended as Geeklawyer was.
Elton John is taking over from Pavarotti in […]
September 12, 2007 – 6:27 pm
Since he is participating in a round table panel Geeklawyer feels that he should punt the Society for Computers and Law’s conference. Billed as a “conference without the boring bit” the programme and the speakers & topics look very very interesting indeed. It’s geared towards looking at the issues of law facing the newest web […]
September 10, 2007 – 9:25 pm
Over at at the TaxProf Blog the sorry tale is told of an attorney who billed his client $5,737.50 for drafting and filing two briefs in a bankruptcy matter: billed as 25.5 hours it seems. So far so ordinary, and indeed even reasonable.
The trouble was that the attorney in question produced such a detailed […]
