Monkeys in a cage

Lawyers have to earn something similar to 'continuing education' points every year. This is the same whether you are a lawyer in London, Hong Kong or New York. You have the option of either attending the dreary lectures or giving the dreary lectures yourself. No one wants to do it. The Law Society or the Bar, depending on your qualifying jurisdiction, wants you to do it nevertheless. It's their way of representing to the world that the legal profession maintains its standards. What you're meant to do through these lectures is make sure you remain aware of the legal issues that you wanted to bury in your college past.

In London sometime in November, you could tell it was time for the law firm to submit its papers to the Law Society announcing that all the lawyers had reached their quota, because you'd find partners attending lectures intended for trainees (you can fill your points by whatever means). Here, it seems the practice is to go off on a jolly in a five star hotel resort on Macau, that tiny island once owned by the Portuguese, for a two day cramming session.

Apparently the administrative staff organising the trip are certain that, given any leeway, the lawyers will sign in for the lectures then run off to the poolside bar. So they dared to suggest that the doors to the conference hall be locked. This naturally generated immediate outrage.
"We are not monkeys, we don't need to be locked up in a cage!"
"We need to at least be able to go to the loo!"
"We're lawyers, don't you trust us?"
So the doors will remain unlocked.

I will make sure to order several strawberry daiquiris beforehand.



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