Looking back on some rather dated advertisements, while we've also managed to pull out a letter that amusingly describes a client's interpretation of lawyer interactions.

Law Society’s Gazette, September 1959

There are No Mistakes when You Install… AnsonBecause it is fool-proof and fuss-proof…Hours of copy-typing, checking and correction are entirely eliminated. The Accountant, the Director, the Secretary or the Office Boy can use the ‘Anson’… One ‘Anson’ Copying Machine does twice as much work in one day as six typists in one week – CORRECTLY(advertisement)

Law Society’s Gazette, September 1969

Great thinkers smoke alikeAnd great thinking is Exmoor Hunt. Here’s a tobacco that lets you relax. That leaves you deep in thought and undisturbed. When you sit back with a pipeful of Exmoor Hunt you are smoking a tobacco with over a century of Bristol expertise behind it, enjoying the mellow flavour and aroma… and that’s something to think about. No wonder great thinkers smoke alike – like smoking Exmoor Hunt. 1oz. 7/6 2oz. vacuum tin 15/-(advertisement)

Law Society’s Gazette, September 1959

As others see us(From a letter from a prospective purchaser to his solicitor, acknowledging receipt of a draft contract – after the solicitors from both sides had made amendments)

Thanks for the technicoloured effort. How these legal gents attack each other’s screeds amazes us. Do we detect a suppressed urge to assault one another which finds its outlet in viciously slashing out lines with red ink and writing in what the slasher thinks should be there, to which the slashed hits back by dipping his pen in a wicked greeny-yellow mixture (vitriol?) and scribbling rude words in the margin and occasionally crossing out the crossed out parts and, just to ram it home, making a lot of use of what we take to be a naughty swear word known only to legal gents – Stet! – a sort of "So there!" in nice language.