There’s nothing like a bit of lawyer-bashing to get the grey matter engaged, at least when I’m not feeling that inspired. So today my attention turned to a spot of legal battery in an entertaining column from Luke Johnson, head of Risk Capital Partners and all-round business pundit (not without reason, he writes well).
Under the headline ‘Lawyers are above the law of decency‘, Johnson recounts the story of a deal he was involved in for which a law firm quoted £35,000, only to announce two days before completion that the bill would actually be £110,000. Understandably irritated, Johnson writes: “It baffles me how they can have the impertinence to call themselves professionals. Such behaviour makes cowboy builders look like choirboys. No other supplier of any other service would even dare to behave in such an egregious and cavalier manner.”
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