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{{a|people| | {{a|people|{{image|General Counsel|jpg|Do you like movies with ''gladiators''?]]}}A handsome, silvered fifty-five year-old midwesterner with the bearing, and legal acumen, of a 747 pilot. If you encounter him in the lift he won’t have a clue who you are, even though you have worked in his department since 1998. | ||
[[General counsel]] are so named because they have distilled all the manifold devilish details of legal practice which haunt and propel their junior colleagues down to the single general principle by which the [[common law]] is organised: ''[[precedent]]''. Their first, and most likely last reaction to any conundrum they face will be to ask: “What have we done when this sort of thing has come up before?” | [[General counsel]] are so named because they have distilled all the manifold devilish details of legal practice which haunt and propel their junior colleagues down to the single general principle by which the [[common law]] is organised: ''[[precedent]]''. Their first, and most likely last reaction to any conundrum they face will be to ask: “What have we done when this sort of thing has come up before?” | ||