Leeds lawyers, it seems don’t get to meet each other much. At the end of a recent Legal Week round table debate involving Leeds’ top lawyers, our humble scribe was slightly surprised to be asked to leave the room so that the participants could engage in a bit of post-match analysis.
As he waited in the corridor, our correspondent could not help but be reminded of the economist Adam Smith’s observation that: “People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but that the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public or in some contrivance to raise prices.”
