This one goes out to all the “single ladeez”, uncle partners and judges, lawyers’ professional brethren and sistren, and to the truly random.

Joint winner comments of the week: Stating the obvious about uncle judges and partners of the touchy kind, and how the legal profession is “dominated by pepper-spray wielding female commandoes”.

All-boys clubs and short skirt stereotypes hurt women’s legal careers: SOWL panel

Send them to the kitchen! — 11 July 21:58

Yes, let's blame the women shall we? When a lecherous moron male judge ignores the nerdy looking brilliant girl because girls are only worth what they look like, let's blame the hot girl who was her opponent. The judge's choice must somehow be the hot girl's fault.

If so many women are wearing short skirts and running up the corporate ladder, where do they all disappear to? Why are most of the people at the top still male? And why are they the kind of male that gets away with treating recruitment of associates like the purchase of geishas for the office.

People like you don't understand that rape is not about the victim's clothes. And discrimination isn't about the victims' clothes either. Ignoring a smart woman's work and focusing on her looks isn't particularly good for her.

Phamily or Single ladeez? – 12 July 00:06

Yes, why bother doing anything about it. Let's instead continue to force young women to sit in cubicles with men who leer at porn in front of them and get off by telling them lewd jokes. Let us continue to let bosses openly have conversations with their juniors' chests. Let us let them touch themselves occasionally. What's she going to do about it after all?

In the same of informal bonding, let us let bosses force young female associates to come drinking with them after work and then to get a little touchy-feely and more under the shield of their drunkenness. Let us let men ask personal questions so that they can decide whether the female associate is a 'respectable' 'family' person who must be left alone, or whether she is one of those loose single free-for-all women whose duty in and out of the office is to please her boss who is now too fat and ugly to get attention from any pretty young woman who he can't compel to come smile at him every evening.

Let us never tell the creepy men or their friends who egg them on when they cross the line. And let us definitely never ever tell the women when the line can be considered to have been crossed, and what they can do about it.

Because it is the poor men who are discriminated against and harassed...and that's why you never see them in the upper rungs of the profession. It is completely dominated by pepper-spray wielding female commandoes.

Runner-up: A number of lawyers have for years privately and publicly complained that CA firms have been competing ruthlessly with law firms. If you’re a client, they’re also generally cheaper and less likely to bury you in pointless legal principles in paperwork, or so we’ve heard. Funny how BCI priorities get made.

SILF view clashes with BCI SC appeal over foreign lawyers but says CA firms practise illegally

Oracle – 10 July 16:23

Good point - agree with you to some extent.

HOWEVER, Big 4 is getting involved even in disputes and transactional advisory work. If they hire lawyers for in-house work that should be fine, but they cannot hire lawyers and provide legal advice as multidisciplinary partnership of lawyers and CAs is not allowed. The interpretation of our courts on the foreign firm issue also suggests that they would most likely take a similar view if Big 4 is challenged in court.

Bonus non-sequitur of the week

All-boys clubs and short skirt stereotypes hurt women’s legal careers: SOWL panel

Osho — 11 July 18:00

Sex in any form is beautiful. Look, how we are enjoying simply by typing the message. This is the "Law of Nature"; much above Law in any form and the Lawyers in any form.