In 1993 the Queen's Counsel cartoon strip first appeared in the law pages of The Times. The authors were Alex Williams and Graham Defries, two young lawyers determined to make fun of the legal profession even as they attempted to climb its greasy pole. The strip soon settled on a handful of key characters: Sir Geoffrey Bentwood QC, Head of Chambers at 4 Lawn Buildings, a study in pomposity and all-round Master of the Legal Universe; Richard Loophole, ambulance chaser and senior partner at Filibuster and Loophole; and Rachel Underwood, oppressed associate who never quite makes partner no matter how good her work is. The strip has been published continuously in The Times ever since. Collected here for the first time is the author's personal selection of the very best cartoons over the past 20 years, showing that, despite all the changes in the legal profession in over two decades - nothing much has really changed. These cartoons show Britain's best-loved legal cartoon satire maturing into ripe middle-age; good-natured, funny, and a bit flabby around the middle.

The Queen's Counsel Lawyer's Omnibus: 20 Years of Cartoons from the Times 1993-2013

Comics & Graphic Novels

Williams, Alex Steuart

Comic Strips

Law Brief Publishing

The funny and subversive Queen’s Counsel cartoon strip has appeared on the law pages of the Times since 1993, delighting the legal profession and general readers alike with its accurate and biting send-up of the profession and its practices. In these pages, readers will delight in the characters of Geoffrey Bentwood QC, who specializes in boring his clients to death while not-so-secretly longing to be promoted to the bench; his sidekick, Edward Longwind, who takes lessons in pomposity from Sir Geoffrey; Richard Loophole of Loophole and Fillibuster, who does his best to bankrupt clients while working his associates to death and pretending to remember some of the law he learned at school; and Mr. Sprocket, the endlessly unsuccessful litigant whose lawyers will not rest until they have spent all of his money.

Lawyers Uncovered: Everything You Always Wanted to Know But Didn't Want to Pay 500 an Hour to Find Out

Defries, Graham Francis

JR Books

In 1993 Queen's Counsel made its first appearance in the law pages of The Times. It has been published weekly there ever since and, in 2013, at last embraced the modern era by being printed in colour for the first time. Its cast of characters are familiar to anyone with an acquaintance of the English legal system. Sir Geoffrey Bentwood QC, Head of Chambers at 4 Lawn Buildings, a study in legal pomposity, vintage claret and Latin epithets; Richard Loophole, ambulance chaser and senior partner of Filibuster & Loophole; and Rachel Underwood, oppressed associate solicitor who never quite makes partner no matter how many all-nighters she works. Collected here, in full colour, is the best of the last six years of Queen's Counsel as its inhabitants progress through the legal year grappling with antiquated senior judges, modern office politics and the elusive search for the client with bottomless pockets. "Very funny. Beautifully drawn. Sometimes makes me jealous." - Charles Peattie, creator of the 'Alex' cartoons "More wonderful fish-in-a-barrel lawyer baiting from Alex Steuart Williams - one can only admire his courage in continuing to goad a profession notoriously at ease with seriously expensive solutions to libel and defamation" - Martin Rowson "Even more laughs than the Supreme Court" - Nick Newman ABOUT THE AUTHORS Alexander Williams is a cartoonist and animator whose film credits include Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, The Lion King, The Iron Giant, the last three Harry Potter films and The Chronicles of Narnia. He has worked for many studios including Disney, DreamWorks, Fox, Warner Bros and Sony. Alex is Head of Animation at Escape Studios in London, and the founder of the online animation school www.animationapprentice.org. He also draws the weekly cartoon strip Queen's Counsel which has appeared in the law pages of The Times since 1993, and has published many books. Nick Reid is a former investment manager living in Edinburgh. He first met Alex whilst they were both working in Tokyo in 2002. Back in the UK, Nick and Alex collaborated together on the book '101 Uses for a Useless Banker', published in 2009 in the aftermath of the Financial Crash. Around the same time Nick started contributing cartoons for Queen's Counsel in The Times.

For a Few Guineas More - The Legal Year in Cartoons

Reid, Nick

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