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5 November 2007

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Catrin Griffiths, editor
As part of The Lawyer's 20th anniversary celebrations, we're publishing The Lawyer Hall of Fame next month. We've already drawn up a long list through our research, but we want your thoughts too.

Here's a confession. For the past few weeks I've been reading every single issue of The Lawyer ever published.

This isn't some bout of deranged masochism, rather it is in preparation for our 20th anniversary special next month and for 2008, when we turn 21.

The practice of law has changed more in two decades than in the previous two centuries. In the late 1980s there was clamour around the impending Courts & Legal Services Bill - a hugely important reform.

Twenty years on, the Legal Services Bill has just received Royal Assent.

As part of our celebrations, we're publishing The Lawyer Hall of Fame next month. We've already drawn up a long list through our research, but we want your thoughts too.

We don't just want the big billers, by the way - that would be lazy thinking.

We're canvassing for a list of pioneers, innovators, and campaigners; the lawyers who have actually changed the way the law is practised. Time for some of the unsung heroes to take a bow.

Here are some of the suggestions that readers have made so far:

- Tony Angel: for turning Linklaters into a "world class firm".

- Lord Woolf: for having an enormous impact, "whether or not you agree with his reforms".

And...

- Ally McBeal: for being "more responsible than anyone for attracting a generation into the profession".

To post your suggestions for The Lawyer Hall of Fame, click the 'Add your own comment' funtion below.

Catrin Griffiths, editor

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Readers' comments (25)

  • Anonymous | 20-Nov-2007 12:27 pm

    Hall of Fame nomination

    Geoffrey Voss QC. Obviously he is very eminent now in a whole variety of ways. He has transformed his own practise, and in some respects the reputation of the Chancery Bar, from something obscure and old fashioned to something modern and commercial.

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  • Anonymous | 29-Nov-2007 1:09 pm

    Hall of Fame

    Lord Mackay - The last proper lord chancellor we have had for 20 years

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  • Good Grief What is the World Coming To !!!! | 29-Nov-2007 1:45 pm

    ALLY McBEAL??????

    Hardly!!! If ever there was a creature who was single handedly responsible for the diabolical myth that intelligent women can only work in a professional environment with a dizzy unfocussed mind merely by wearing a short skirt and setting her clutches on the married and/or senior partners in the firm, then she was it.


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  • Anonymous | 30-Nov-2007 9:56 am

    Hall of Fame - Don't forget ILEX!

    With their profile (and numbers) ever increasing how about acknowledging the role that Legal Executives have managed to carve out for themselves? Studying whilst working, often women returning to work with few formal qualifications, they have managed to build careers despite the many hurdles, lack of recognition and career advancement that has been on offer. In particular, Caroline Greathead, one of the founder members of the Solicitors for the Elderly. She has become recognised as a champion and leader in the fight for the protection of the rights of elderly clients.
    Working with organisations such as Age Concern, Alzheimer’s Disease, Multiple Sclerosis and Downs Syndrome.
    She is a fine example to us all, demonstrating that at its core law should never be all about the money!

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  • Brian Lee | 10-Dec-2007 5:31 pm

    Sir Arthur Watts

    Simply the best

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