Your Letters – Page 27
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Solicitors: know your own strength
It is time for the profession to wake up to the fact that ‘solicitor’ is one of the world’s best legal brands and start to market it accordingly.
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Power of ‘attorney’
I still think that we should have our own unique courtesy title of ‘Attorney’.
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Pedantry: just one word
I attempted to alter the expression ‘at the date hereof’ to ‘today’.
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Roger Wicks: a leading light remembered
Roger Wicks, a pioneering figure in claimant clinical negligence, will be sadly missed – except perhaps by the National Health Service.
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Lloyd George pilgrimage
Museum to Britain’s first solicitor prime minister is an edifying experience – the profession should pull out the stops to keep it open.
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Lawyers should be ‘doctors’ too
Maybe we should follow dentists and adopt the more respected ‘dr’ title.
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Mortgage alert
Imagine the problems if the usual undertaking to discharge the mortgage had been given pre-completion and the bank then raised these pre-conditions to a discharge.
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A matter of public interest
The AG is a lawyer and therefore independent, in theory, but he is also a member of Cabinet and open to accusations of ostensible bias.
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End the revolving door of prison
Incarceration still plays a disproportionate and counterproductive role in our approach to criminal offending.
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Legal email fail
It would be nice to think that the law as a profession was at the cutting edge of technology.
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OpinionCity lawyers' fees: free-market reality
The billable-hour debate regarding City fees is a predictable sideshow – firms will price at a level the market deems acceptable.