In-house lawyers have long lamented the isolation that comes from their rarefied position, the impenetrable walls of their ivory towers leaving them all too often cut off from sunlight, human contact and basic commercial reality.
Indeed, while lawyers in private practice are famed for the keen sense of professional camaraderie fomented by ‘working late’ with favoured colleagues several nights a week, the typical in-houser is more commonly found wandering the aisles of Sainsbury’s in search of microwavable dinners-for-one or sat in an obscure pub, forlornly sipping a half of London Pride, with a well-thumbed copy of What Briefcase?.
