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A fatal floor in the plan
Posted 11/05/2007 by The Daily Diary
Tesco may have arrived on the Algarve, but the ‘Tesco law’ concept is apparently light-years from reaching the Portuguese Bar. Word reaches The Diary that one entrepreneurial Lisbon lawyer has been accused of shaming the whole profession – by opening an office on the ground floor of a shopping mall.
Aiming to offer your average Joao on the street more straightforward access to decent legal advice, the lawyer in question thought a shopping centre would be the ideal place to rent an office.
However, the Portuguese Bar disagreed, arguing that it is unbecoming of a lawyer to have a ground-floor address, which it regards as tantamount to soliciting (the dodgy kind).
Happily, the lawyer is now moving up in the world – having taken a first-floor office more to the liking of local Bar bigwigs.
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