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Short letters, long consequences.

Published when a point of law, practice or conduct deserves a page. Never more than a page — see creed, item v.

On the single page as a weapon: what a century of correspondence taught us about saying less, later, to greater effect.

London, Singapore or Zurich? Where we are seating cross-border disputes this year, and the two clauses we now refuse to draft.

What to do — and precisely what not to say — in the first hour of a dawn raid. Print it. Put it by the door. Hope it gathers dust.

The best transaction advice of 2025 was "wait." A defence of the partner who says it, and the arithmetic that proves them right.

Art moves; jurisdictions don't. Four rules for estates with objects in them, from the desk that settles them.

Preparation is a temperament, not a timesheet. How the house style is taught, and why our juniors read transcripts for sport.

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