Some might say commercial lawyers are operating in a kind of bubble, operating with inflated salaries in half-empty luxurious offices while the rest of the country struggles with rising food, fuel and energy prices.
At the very least they are at the comfy end of the profession. When criminal barristers staged a walkout this week it was difficult to disagree with what they were saying about underfunding. The problem with arguing with barristers is that they are experts in putting forward their case and one convincing perspective was made by Christian Fox of Becket Chambers, who pointed out that the lack problems in the criminal justice system throw a spotlight on the oceans of money in commercial law.
