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To anonymous 2.40pm.
It is right that we as a profession reflect on those who served and died for their country, and to remember that solicitors served too (no doubt a surprise to lawyer-bashers). I know lots about the First World War, but I didn't know 23 solicitors died on the first day of the Somme. Thousands of others died too, but somehow it is difficult with those high numbers to put it into context. Rather than trying (and failing) to pause to remember 19, 340, let us remember the 23. If they had all come from the same firm, how many firms would that wipe out?
Catherine's point was not that the issues that challenge our profession today can at all be equated with those facing our forebears 100 years ago today. Quite the reverse. What she means is our forebears faced worse and overcame them. We can definitely overcome our issues if we draw on their strength. And it would be really nice for somethings not relate to the late referendum - time and a place for everything, and this is for remembrance.