#solicitor

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Quick doodle between comms. Aleksios my solicitor wraith.

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Mr Shikamaru Nara KC (Kings counsel, senior barrister)

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All the Forbidden Arcanoi together! The series is officially over now—yay!

Which Forbidden Arcanoi is your favorite?

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March 14th 1900 saw the birth of Scottish lawyer, Dame Margaret Kidd in Bo’ness.

Today, there are around 130 practising female advocates in Scotland. Before 1923 there had been none; then along came Margaret Henderson Kidd.

Margaret was the eldest of nine children. Her mother, Janet Gardner, was a teacher and her father, James Kidd, was a solicitor and Unionist MP for Linlithgowshire.

Following her education at Linlithgow Academy, Margaret moved on to study law at the University of Edinburgh graduating with an MA and LLB in 1922.

The following year, on 13 July 1923 (at the age of 23), Margaret was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates, making her the first female member of the Scottish bar. As were the tendency of newspapers in the day, the Scotsman newspaper focussed on Margaret’s attire on the day describing her as wearing “a coat frock of black crepe morocain, a soft white collar with a narrow white bow tie, and a straw hat trimmed with velvet.’ Later in the day, she donned the wig and gown as she formally entered her new role. Between 1923 and 1948, she remained the only female advocate.

Margaret was the first female advocate to appear before the House of Lords and a Parliamentary Select Committee of the House of Commons. In 1948, she became the first woman to become a King’s Council in Britain, known as taking the silk, preceding both Helena Normanton and Rose Helibron, who were appointed KC in England and Wales in 1949.

Later in her career, she became Sheriff Principal for Dumfries and Galloway in 1960 (the first woman to occupy such a post) and then Sheriff Principal of Perth and Angus from 1966 until her retirement in 1975. She was also Editor of the Court of Session Law reports of the Scots Law Times from 1942 to 1976.

She was made a DBE (Dame of the British Empire) in 1975 and received honorary LLDs (Doctor of Laws – the highest university degree in Law) from the University of Dundee in 1982 and the University of Edinburgh in 1984.

Her greatest achievement perhaps was balancing a career with raising a family, quite a challenge in those days. In 1930, she married Donald Somerled MacDonald in her hometown and despite trying to keep the ceremony a secret, word got out and over two hundred parishioners attended. According to the Linlithgowshire Gazette, ‘[a] long line of flags stretched from the church to a tall tree within the grounds and at the gate of Muiredge, the bride’s home, which adjoins the church….’ The couple went on to have a daughter, Anne.

Dame Margaret was also highly active in public life and supported several charities – she became Vice President of the Federation of University Women and was involved in the Queen’s Nursing Institute.

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that one robber calling Matt “solicitor” was giving Ra’s al Ghul calling Batman “detective”

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For anyone who missed it: writer and solicitor Kerry Greenwood passed away in 2025. A final Miss Fisher novel, Murder In The Cathedral, is in process.

Iconic Australian author behind popular TV series dies at age 70

Kerry Greenwood OAM, the Australian author behind the crime-thriller book series Miss Fisher's Murder Myste...

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Jonathan asks me to send his 'respectful duty,' but I do not think that is good enough from the junior partner of the important firm of Hawkins and Harker; and so, as you love me, and he loves me, and I love you with all the moods and tenses of the verb, I send you simply his 'love' instead.

"Dracula" - Bram Stoker