Cleary Gottlieb corporate partner Ashar Qureshi unleashes his penchant for untrammelled eloquence

Why did you become a lawyer? When I was interviewing for jobs as a law student, I had a terribly pretentious pat answer: a fascination with the use of language to order and govern human behaviour led me to the law. The truth is, being a lawyer seemed to be the least of all evils (little did I know).