How to start? How to start? And just how many minutes of my week am I actually going to spend pondering the same?!
These were my main thoughts this week. I considered an opening joke, introducing myself in the form of a lonely-heart ad and various other equally less humorous openings; then tried Googling ‘funny openings lines’, before deciding blatant plagiarism was best left in the past with my first year undergraduate history degree.
So how to start? Well as I am now well into my first blog for the Legal Week.co.uk, there is a good argument that I have started and need to press on before readers start drifting away to the links at the side of your screen or invariably facebook.
About me: My name is Philip Gray and I am a trainee solicitor at Kirwans, I am based in the Commercial Department in Liverpool. I am 24 and live in Aigburth. I grew up in Heswall on the Wirral and went to school at Calday Grammar in West Kirby. It was at Calday that I first studied law and realised immediately that the mix of reasoned argument based on hundreds on years of thought and intelligent debate coupled with the application to real people and real world problems and issues was the only career (having failed to become a racing driver) for me.
I studied law at the University of Birmingham, doing the conversion course (CPE) having initially studied Economic History and Politics - learning that the only place on earth where Communism survives almost unchallenged is in a red brick University.
Life at Kirwans: I finished my legal studies in Birmingham in June 2007 before starting work at Kirwans in September. At present we have three offices; in Moreton and Prenton on the Wirral and in the Martins Building on Water Street, in the city centre. The commercial department provides specialised legal advice on all aspects of business practice. In particular, we specialise in; intellectual property, defamation and media law, commercial property, employment law and commercial litigation and agreements. This means that no two days are ever the same and I stare out the window to the clock on the Liver Building at around 6pm every day wondering how on earth another day has come and passed quicker than Everton’s time in this year’s FA Cup!
The Blog: In a nutshell the purpose of this blog will be to relate commercial law and its transformation to relevant contemporary issues that affect those of you who read these pages, whilst having a good rant about certain issues at the same time! I look forward to penning this each week and hopefully getting feedback and comments from some of you. If there’s one thing I’ve realised after returning to the Northwest it’s that people love to voice their opinion and have a good argument.
That’s it for this week. Next week is a must read if you are an agency worker; and hopefully I will be able to shower praise upon my stumbling Toffees!
Enjoy your week
Philip Gray