For no particular reason my old friend Edward (who always wore a beret, though he was from Bermuda not France) popped into my thoughts this morning. Several years ago he was accused of copyright infringement by an eminent professor and had to find himself a good lawyer to defend him in court. So how do you go about finding a good copyright lawyer? Well, he called the Law Society who sent him a list of 50 or so.
So Edward thought "I guess I'll just have to go through the list, call each of them up and sound them out". So he called the first one on the list, explained his situation to the secretary and got put through to the lawyer. This was the exchange:-
Edward: "How much would you charge me to answer three questions?"
Lawyer: "That would be £500 ...plus VAT"
Edward: " £500? - that's an awful lot of money isn't it?"
Lawyer: "Well I do have big overheads and a family to feed. Now, what was your third question?"
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