Southeast firm ASB Law hasn’t exactly been having a wild time of it of late. What with it recently losing three family and private client partners to Goodman Derrick as well as instituting a redundancy round, it has been a busy time for the firm. Which, perhaps, explains the somewhat defensive tone it adopted when a Legal Week hack rang in the other day to seek a chin wag with its chief executive, Christopher Honeyman Brown. The enquiry was met with a response frostier than Skegness beach in a nuclear winter.
“I’m afraid he doesn’t take telephone calls from people like you,” the woman on the end of the line dutifully informed your Diarist. “If he took phone calls he wouldn’t have time to do any work.”
