Brushed up

Brushed up

Brushed up: Leeds will be a smarter place for the efforts of lawyers from its leading law firms.

Wherever you turn in the city, solicitors have been busy donning overalls and painting todisprove the theory that they have little use outside the environs of the office.

Working on a 'Changing Rooms' challenge organised by charity Leeds Cares, a team of volunteers from Eversheds (above) transformed a three-storey terraced property into comfortable rooms to be used as stop-gap homes for the homeless, while ten trainees from Addleshaw Booth & Co decorated communal areas at Elmete Wood school.

Karen Phillips is pictured (below right), with Andy Hough of the school.

Eversheds lawyer Jane Wearing said: 'Along the way, they acquire new skills and training - building, plumbing, electrical - which could help them to find work in the future.' Whether she was talking about the homeless or the trainees was not clear.