BookWho said the Law Society doesn’t get its priorities right? In his just published autobiography, former IBM and Theodore Goddard lawyer Bill Blackburn looks back with heartfelt regret that during his days as a Law Society council hack he failed to become chair of the society’s wine committee.

He does, however, have the grace to describe the man who beat him to the post, Hammond Suddards Edge consultant John Aucott, as an excellent committee head.