And no he didn’t enjoy it.
The trouble with clients is that the more stupid they are the less inclined they are to listen to good advice. Newsflash: throwing money at lawyers doesn’t guarantee you a win if you are an arse-hat.
Geeklawyer had to contend with bad facts and adverse law so he knew what was coming. He felt it might help to bend over and think of England.
It didn’t.
A layman speaks.
No experience of the law. Never been to a court. But I have essential advice for those who want to get on that bar based on my experience last week at a Leasehold Valuation Tribunal.
Get yourself a facial.
Appearing for the respondent, against us, was a regal incarnation of your profession, the senior in a Band 1 chambers.
We knew he was expensive. His 45-minute peroration would cost the local authority close to £10,000, we were told.
It was something of a disappointment, we must admit, that we could understand everything that he said and that what he said was so simply constructed.
What knocked the tribunal out, however, was his appearance. He was immaculately coiffed. I’m not homosexual but as a punter I was in awe of the all-consuming obsession and passion that had been applied to his hair. My wife told me confidently that he had clearly had a full facial scrub that morning. He was magazine cover material.
Yes, but what about his argument, I hear you say. Was he any good? Well, not really, based on the skeleton argument. Absolutely professional, of course. But no gob-stopping, stone-the-crows moment of brilliant insight, in the cold light of day.
What did make his argument was the sheer aesthetic wonder of his whole presentation. Appearance is all.
Geek,
Perhaps the title of your posts is attracting a new type of ‘traffic’.
One day you are talking about being A… R…, and another you are telling the world how little you charge.
Wrong kind of traffic?…. nonsense … You are the Zen Master!