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A Virgin fantasy

19 June 2008 / Jennifer James
Issue: 7326 / Categories: Features , Legal services , Procedure & practice , Profession
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Jennifer James is the Insider. PS The Insider has returned safely and will tell all about the Land of the Rising Sun next time!

The Insider is as much a fan of the shrinking world as the next man or woman, but occasionally this fad for jet setting drops one right in the proverbial.

At an American Bar Association event last October, your intrepid reporter was given a Monopoly Board style raffle docket, whereby one had to visit as many stands as possible during the evening, get their stamp on the docket and then put it in a big hopper at the end for the prize draw.

Since the stands were mostly advertising fine handmade chocolates, wine and spirits (plus one random company doing tea towels with Carbolic Smoke Ball advertising on them) this was no hardship. However, since I never win ANYTHING not even £10 on the Lotto, my hopes were about as high as they would be at an evening of anecdote and song with big hearted Michael Napier.

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