>There are solicitors, who provide legal advice from their offices, and there are barristers, who argue in court. Barristers get the majority of their business via solicitors, and clerks act as the crucial middlemen between the tribes—they work for and sell the services of their barristers, steering inquiring solicitors to the right man or woman.
>Clerks are by their own cheerful admission “wheeler-dealers,” what Americans might call hustlers. They take a certain pride in managing the careers of their bosses, the barristers—a breed that often combines academic brilliance with emotional fragility. Many barristers regard clerks as their pimps.
Managing relationships between lawyers? I think it seems a bit more tricky than playing Go.
Also, most of this relationship management happens in pubs (really), so until we have a robot that can drink and smoke and stagger, this one stays with the humans.
They're a very close-knit and rambunctiously boozy clique.
>Clerks are by their own cheerful admission “wheeler-dealers,” what Americans might call hustlers. They take a certain pride in managing the careers of their bosses, the barristers—a breed that often combines academic brilliance with emotional fragility. Many barristers regard clerks as their pimps.
Managing relationships between lawyers? I think it seems a bit more tricky than playing Go.