This is well worth a read… authored by Jonathan Goldsmith is Law Society Council member for EU & International, chair of the Law Society’s Policy & Regulatory Affairs Committee and a member of its board.
As they have to point out All views expressed are personal and are not made in his capacity as a Law Society Council member, nor on behalf of the Law Society..
Here’s the introduction to his piece..which references Fitzgerald & Wharton and so I’m happy to read it as i’ve been ruminating a lot recently on the Fitzgerald sentence… “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
Goldsmith starts with
Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me,’ F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote a hundred years ago.
One of the ways in which the very rich differ from us is in the lawyer stories they spawn. There is a decent novel to be written about the relationships between billionaires and lawyers.
Donald Trump is one example. His lawyers face disbarment, public protest, criminal prosecution and bankruptcy. But enough has been written about them.
On the other hand, here are some stories about lawyers in the orbit of the world’s richest person, Elon Musk (pictured). As with Trump’s lawyers’ stories, they illuminate certain aspects of legal life.
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