The things lawyers do in the name of entertainment. This year's International Bar Association (IBA) conference in Prague is the first under its new internal structure, and as part of the changes, the powerful section on business law (SBL) has been subsumed into a wider legal practice division. And how was the SBL's passing marked? By a group of former chairmen and chairwomen singing a song, 'Farewell to the SBL', to the tune of the French national anthem, 'La Marseillaise', in the grand hall of a 17th century chateau. Led by current IBA president Francis Neate, resplendent in his white dinner jacket, lines included: 'We all took the torch in our turn/But now it's time to say goodbye/As we wipe a tear from every eye/Farewell the SBL... Remember it well, the SBL/Farewell the SBL.' You had to be there.
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