As regular readers will know, here at Obiter HQ we are always keen to promote the legal profession's sporting prowess. An interview in the latest edition of Yachting World reveals that British match racing champion Ian Williams qualified as a solicitor and practised for 18 months. For some strange reason, he chose instead to pursue a career on the high seas - but then he was sailing in the Stanford Antigua Sailing Week at the time of the interview. Mr Williams is also top of the International Sailing Federation's world match racing league, the first British sailor to have ever reached that status, according to the magazine. Happily, he says his legal training has not gone to waste but rather given him skills that he believes will help take him further in the professional racing circuit. 'These skills are relevant to a lot of different areas in life,' he reports. 'The experience I got training as a solicitor is actually quite relevant to what I do - how to work in a big team and how to present yourself professionally.' There may be a sport out there that makes use of lawyers' proofreading and paginating skills as well, but we have yet to find it.