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Originally posted by geoschmo:
Yes, but you get to wear those nifty wigs right? 
Geo
No, that's barristers - unlike you Yanks, our legel professions are split two ways - you are either a barrister (get to wear the wig and appear in court) or a solicitor (do the hard graft and grease the wheels of industry)
I am a solicitor
Scary thought is that when you join the English legal profession, you either go soliciting or go to the bar (technical term for becoming a barrister)
European lawyers for some reason laugh so hard at this that the tears run down their legs - they say that English lawyers either go cruising for a piece of derriere or end up drunk
probably a fair comment