I guess one of the consequences of home working is that this is a rarer phenomenon than it once was. There are also armies of HR bods around nowadays.
What are your best examples of fights breaking out at work?
He was one of the early full bore solicitor advocates Marshall. He had started at the common law bar. He had some chutzpah, no doubt, a little bull of a man, but also the judgement of an ox. It was a difficult application and he was uptight with some justification, Tbf, but also he had accrued my complete hatred over some years by then.
Yeah he got the order ex parte then unvaried at the inter partes hearing but then 4 years of litigation hell and eventual bankruptcy of the defendant so the client got very little out of it in the end.
3am as was is there any chance your boss at that meeting was called Howard? Something very similar happened at a meeting when I was a trainee.
Years ago, someone I knew tangentially was said to have been engaged in an argument with a colleague in a bar which culminated in him removing the other guy’s glasses, snapping them in half, and tucking the two halves back into the guy’s jacket breast pocket.
Now THAT is the ultimate in solictorfighting
Slightly more aggro version of the story of a junior who turned up one day wearing a shirt which had, you'd better brace yourself and sit down, a breast pocket. Supervising partner walks over to him and rips the pocket off the front, hands him £50 and sends him out to buy an acceptable shirt.
Supervisor was a fvcking tool eh
Breast pockets are very handy. I dont know why posh shirts don't have them, or why the Eton-and-Guards, unfurled umbrella, "no brown in town" brigade are so disdainful of them.
The glasses one is the best so far
SummerSails - erm, yes! HDK if I recall.
Arm wrestling Mounties sounds awesome. Wish I'd trained at that firm!
"He was one of the early full bore solicitor advocates"
Father to a murdered son
Husband to a murdered wife
And he will have his revenge!
In that case I was there with you. The former Mountie was an absolute cnut. I was the property person who left then reappeared in 2010 just as you were about to leave the firm.
Breast pockets in casual shirts are very useful - perfect storage/easy access for my train ticket and Surrey CCC membership card.
I have met many full bores during my time in the profession
Correct Marshall, and any risk of overheating due to the extra material up front is also alleviated by having short sleeves
Summersails - he was. Long time ago!
I'm trying to place you - are you still there?
No I left the old NGJ again back in 2011 but still in touch with a couple of the old gang.
hmm. The "darts" or "biro" pocket is something favoured by the Muhrcan middle manager. See also short sleeves and button down collars. In extreme / acute cases of the disease, symptoms may extend to a situation in which sleeves are "gartered" by very odd spring things, which can only ever be necessary if your tailor has lost his marbles or tape measure, or your valet buys the wrong sleeve length, or you make the mistake of going to buy off-the-peg shirts without your valet riding shotgun, or you have no valet but boast uncommonly short arms to a level not accommodated by retailers, for one reason or another.
Raymond McKeeve was prone to office bullying. I see he has his SDT hearing next week to go with his perverting the course of justice conviction. Lovely chap.
He was one of the early full bore solicitor advocates Marshall. He had started at the common law bar. He had some chutzpah, no doubt, a little bull of a man, but also the judgement of an ox. It was a difficult application and he was uptight with some justification, Tbf, but also he had accrued my complete hatred over some years by then.
Yeah he got the order ex parte then unvaried at the inter partes hearing but then 4 years of litigation hell and eventual bankruptcy of the defendant so the client got very little out of it in the end.
3am as was is there any chance your boss at that meeting was called Howard? Something very similar happened at a meeting when I was a trainee.
Years ago, someone I knew tangentially was said to have been engaged in an argument with a colleague in a bar which culminated in him removing the other guy’s glasses, snapping them in half, and tucking the two halves back into the guy’s jacket breast pocket.
Now THAT is the ultimate in solictorfighting
Slightly more aggro version of the story of a junior who turned up one day wearing a shirt which had, you'd better brace yourself and sit down, a breast pocket. Supervising partner walks over to him and rips the pocket off the front, hands him £50 and sends him out to buy an acceptable shirt.
Supervisor was a fvcking tool eh
Breast pockets are very handy. I dont know why posh shirts don't have them, or why the Eton-and-Guards, unfurled umbrella, "no brown in town" brigade are so disdainful of them.
The glasses one is the best so far
SummerSails - erm, yes! HDK if I recall.
Arm wrestling Mounties sounds awesome. Wish I'd trained at that firm!
"He was one of the early full bore solicitor advocates"
Father to a murdered son
Husband to a murdered wife
And he will have his revenge!
In that case I was there with you. The former Mountie was an absolute cnut. I was the property person who left then reappeared in 2010 just as you were about to leave the firm.
Breast pockets in casual shirts are very useful - perfect storage/easy access for my train ticket and Surrey CCC membership card.
I have met many full bores during my time in the profession
Correct Marshall, and any risk of overheating due to the extra material up front is also alleviated by having short sleeves
Summersails - he was. Long time ago!
I'm trying to place you - are you still there?
No I left the old NGJ again back in 2011 but still in touch with a couple of the old gang.
hmm. The "darts" or "biro" pocket is something favoured by the Muhrcan middle manager. See also short sleeves and button down collars.
In extreme / acute cases of the disease, symptoms may extend to a situation in which sleeves are "gartered" by very odd spring things, which can only ever be necessary if your tailor has lost his marbles or tape measure, or your valet buys the wrong sleeve length, or you make the mistake of going to buy off-the-peg shirts without your valet riding shotgun, or you have no valet but boast uncommonly short arms to a level not accommodated by retailers, for one reason or another.
Raymond McKeeve was prone to office bullying. I see he has his SDT hearing next week to go with his perverting the course of justice conviction. Lovely chap.
What’s that - a patch?
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