Just Your Typical First Day as a Lawyer
After years of studying, travelling and bumming around, I finally started my job as a trainee lawyer on Monday 15th August 2005. The workday went well. That evening, full [...]
Post-Mortem: 99 Red Balloons
That was the month that was. I’m glad – proud! – that I stood for Parliament. Sure, finishing 11th out of 13 candidates, amassing only 99 votes, whilst spending [...]
Sometimes, it’s your turn
(I take no pleasure in writing this blogpost. I write – for my kids - to record what happened. I have only read one of the 10 news articles about [...]
Ignore the Bedside Manner
During my 18 years practicing law, I have worked with hundreds of lawyers. I have also hired, managed and fired quite a few lawyers, too. Through my work I have [...]
Leaving my own law firm after a decade
(Due to poor health, three of my colleagues at Truth Legal are buying my shares in a Management Buy-Out. A few days ago, I gave a speech at our 10th [...]
Here Comes The Immigration Lawyers Organisation
Eighteen months after I first concocted the idea of the Immigration Lawyers Organisation (ILO), the new website is finally live here. What do you think? (But for my ropey health, [...]
A Career in Law?
This is my presentation to the 6th formers at St Aidan’s and St John Fisher’s schools, Harrogate, in June 2022. (When giving a presentation, I usually write a transcript, then [...]
The “D” Word
This April Fool’s Day it is fitting to write that I have become….. disabled. There, I have written it. But I cannot easily say this out loud. How can I [...]
A Life-Affirming Stay in Harrogate Hospital
(These are my musings, written in hospital, more diary entry than blogpost) In Antibiotics, I trust It’s 23:51 on Saturday 12 February 2022. I’m back as an in-patient at [...]
In Sickness and Health, in New Earswick
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of attending the wedding of one of my best friends. The ceremony was in York, with the wedding reception at the New Earswick Folk Hall, [...]
