Measuring quality

Law Society Vice-President David McIntosh was in nostalgic mood at the APIL conference.

He explained that at the start of his career he once asked an in-house lawyer for his costs in a case.

When asked how much work he had done, Mr McIntosh pointed to a file, which happened to be on top of a lot of other files.

The in-house lawyer took out a ruler, measured the piles depth, and paid him by the inch.

He also told this nostalgic vignette of his behaviour after discovering that he had qualified as a solicitor: I danced down the Victoria Embankment singing Im a solicitor, Im a solicitor!, but my girlfriend (now wife) wouldnt let me go to Soho.

Why, he didnt explain.