Without Prejudice

by Marcus Elliott

Every Queen's Counsel who is elevated to the rank has no doubt the appointment is justified and questions only why it did not take place much sooner. But William Starke has no grounds to make this complaint. Starke is just twenty-seven when he is called to the Inner Bar, and to universal acclaim. A strikingly handsome man, his mere presence as counsel can incite a settlement favourable to his client and he has won every case which has gone to trial.
When he enters the Cheapside Law Society annual dinner, Mrs Fraser of Fraser & Gray thinks him every inch a man who could charge someone a thousand pounds an hour just for the privilege of being in his presence.
But Katherine Taylor, the new graduate solicitor at the firm, thinks he looks like a prat.

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First published August 4, 2011