Otherwise, I’m not sure. It’s another symptom of the non-functioning cgi-script that’s supposed to display some of the photos linked from my homepage. I was going to post that picture inline, but I was editing the post after-the-fact, where the “button” to do that is not present and I couldn’t remember the code. So I attached it to this one.
Thanks Olarf for the bicycling bear photo. It looks like that bear is definitely riding a bike, which I can’t remember for sure if I’ve ever seen or not. And it’s a tall bike too!
The photo below was taken at the Riga Circus in Latvia in 1990. The trainer, whose name I can’t remember, was a very famous Russain animal trainer, who passed away a few years later. I don’t know if anyone else has elephants doing that.
The Diary is continually amazed that some partners find time for fee earning in between essential lawyerly pursuits such as riding up Machu Picchu on a unicycle or parachuting out of planes dressed as Elvis.
Take horse-whispering Reid Minty senior partner Andrew Reid, for instance, who recently notched up his 150th win as a flat racing trainer.
Or Walker Morris IP lawyer and elephant polo king Warren Little, who helped his Ireland teammates carry off the junior prize at the World Elephant Polo Championship in Nepal late last year.
However, Clifford Chance risk assessment tsar Chris Andrews ( pictured below) gets The Diary’s vote as the legal profession’s sports personality of the year, for his frankly unbelievable feat of rowing across the Atlantic Ocean with partner-in-brine Clint Evans.
The duo rowed in two-hour shifts for 51 days to complete the 3,000-mile course in aid of the Parkinson’s Disease Society, finishing fourth in a race that also featured Olympic rowing champion James Cracknell.
Impressive stuff. However, if you can do better, contact The Diary at the usual address.
Author: The Diarist
Source: Legal Week
Start Date: 02/02/2006
End Date: 09/02/2006
