Older and wiser: coincidentally, Obiter has heard from two firms boasting practising solicitors well past usual retirement age. Gerald Williams, 88, has 61 years' service after passing his finals in a German PoW camp in 1944. He works full-time at his Middlesex firm Williams & Co and regularly attends court as a duty solicitor. He has no intention of quitting: 'I try to keep my brain active. I think if I gave up work I would end up a cabbage.' Roger Hollingshead, a mere whippersnapper at 75, has been practising for 50 years. He works a two-day week at Curtis Solicitors in Plymouth and also has no plans to retire: 'I very much enjoy working with colleagues, meeting clients and contacts in the profession. It's been a period of amazing changes and still very much ongoing.' While impressive, both have some catching up to do with John Stallard. The Worcester-based solicitor, who died in 1961, enjoyed a career spanning 84 years. He was still attending the office at 103. Alderman William George of Criccieth is also worth mentioning, given he notched up 85 years, working until a month before his death in 1966 at 101. All of which has set Obiter wondering: who is the oldest practising solicitor in England and Wales? Email your nominations to: gazette-editorial@lawsociety.org.uk