Word for the Week

The (im)patient lawyer

Week beginning: 11th May, 2025 | By Jane Sutton | Cambridge

Whoever is patient has great understanding, but one who is quick-tempered displays folly.

Proverbs 14:29 (NIV)

Lawyers are not always the most patient people. Urgency seems to be a professional requirement. A skeleton argument due to Court; a response overdue to a client; being chased for comments on a contract again. But we also spend so much time waiting: w