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 is “like stalking” or merely “the remit of the marketing department“.
Frankly, it is not surprising that so many solicitors or chambers go under.
So, hats off then to the German lawyer Jens Lorek of Dresden who got bored with representing the unemployed and sought new markets. His new practice is in protecting the rights of German citizens abducted by aliens. Now you might imagine this would be a problematic in terms of private international law: obviously you’d need permission to serve out of the jurisdiction; enforcement of any judgment might be problematic, and the consequences might be unpredictable if the inhabitants of Sirius decided to use their Death Star on the Earth to vacate the judgment.
Nor will he take any punter: a ‘Mrs J.‘ who complained to him of abduction by aliens who glowed bright green and smelled of coconuts. He declined her instructions saying of her that “she was crazy“. Stylish; innovative marketing but with integrity retained.
Mercifully for all of us he is leaving the aliens alone and is going after the City of Dresden: for failing to protect its citizens from alien abduction.
Sadly he has yet to earn a penny, thus proving that creativity must, nonetheless, be matched by market research.
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