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WE TALK about what makes a great person. This got me thinking. Do they say that about lawyers?

I would like to think, so but in reality we do tend to get a bad press.

However, if you ask a random selection of members of the public who have had dealings with lawyers they will almost certainly give a very different story. Surveys have shown that the public regard their solicitor to be trustworthy reliable honest and efficient.

Many solicitors are in fact doing far more than serving their clients. Not only by serving as councillors, being school governors and being members of many of the wonderful service organisations in the world including Rotary and The lions. In my club alone, the Rotary Club of Birkenhead, six of our members are lawyers.

BACK to the Good Old Days!

1999 was going to be the big bang in civil procedure. No more delays, court controls and simple procedures with costs being least of our problems as we grappled with the new way of doing things.

For those new to Civil law the National Law Society had quite a lot to say about the proposed changes. There was a great deal of concern that too many changes were taking place to areas of practise which appeared to most to be working very well!