Ruthie recently wrote about the Vos Review of entry to the profession and modes of professional practice. An interim report has now been published and the results are much as expected. While Geeklawyer is intimidated and afraid of Geoffrey Vos QC given his recent inquisition he feels that has to risk a Trip to the […]
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A couple of linked posts over at What About Clients caught my eye. Apparently American lawyers have trouble asking for business.
This struck Geeklawyer as positively bizarre and for a moment he thought Dan was talking about his own experience of effete poofy English lawyers on one of his numerous jollies over here. But no it […]
Ruthie went into Hammicks yesterday for the first time in ages, and was bemused to see a “legal top ten seller” display located next to the cash desk. Mainstream bookshops install these displays, Ruthie assumes, to encourage impulse buys. But most people go into law bookshops to buy a specific volume, not to browse. Ruthie […]
The Lord Chief Justice is setting up a 24 hour counselling line for Judges after a survey found that judges felt in need of “practical and emotional support.” Nothing at all then to do with the recent tragic circumstances of Lord Justice Richards, currently facing trial for exposing himself to a woman on train. Ruthie […]
March 25, 2007 – 10:52 pm
Geeklawyer thought it would be interesting to see what guidance the Bar Council is currently offering on blogging. He wondered this because he emailed the IT people there and invited them to attend the LawBlog 2007. The response was a deep echoing silence interrupted only by tumbleweed flitting across Chancery Lane.
Yes, when it comes to […]
Pupilblogger writes of his last days with ‘The Master’. On their last day he wrote pupilblogger a leaving poem. At the risk of infringing the Master’s copyright Geeklawyer will reproduce it here:
Goodbye o faithful [Pupilblogger]
You are off to spend time with [The Master Part II]
With a vow of silence
Like a Trappist monk
We have climbed many […]
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Everyone knows what crime is, and everyone has an opinion: politicians, journalists, the man on the Clapham Omnibus, and especially lawyers. Unfortunately in the case of lawyers, an understanding of crime gets translated with worrying frequency into a misplaced expertise on criminal law.
No sooner does Geeklawyer get away for a skiing holiday than some imbecile client wants urgent ‘do it right now’ work on a corporate buyout. Thanks a bunch shithead.
Next, if that wasn’t bad enough, some cunt wants a patent finished. This time he is whinging that he gave Geeklawyer the job, and several others, a […]
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February 28, 2007 – 6:35 pm
Geeklawyer is on holiday, but despite this he is still, astonishingly, working. He’s doing a corporate buyout. For his sins he is having to deal with a bunch of twatty country bumpkin solicitors. Geeklawyer has observed more than once that the more humble the firm, the more remote and insignificant the town they work in, […]
February 18, 2007 – 8:37 am
Geeklawyer is pleased by the recent modest growth of UK law blogs - we have a long long way to go before we reach the same relative numbers as in the US. But there is something of a contradiction here: while welcoming more bloggers Geeklawyer is concerned …
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