Word for the Week

What's Your Field?

Week beginning: 23rd January, 2022 | By Ben Fullbrook | London

The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.

Matthew 13:44 (NIV)

If you tell someone at a dinner party that you are a lawyer, a question that often follows is "what's your field?" Having a specialism is how we define ourselves against other lawyers (you know - the boring ones!). It's also, often, how we try to pro