Tess Birch likes to open her stand-up comedy shows with a joke about lawyers.
“I’ll say, ‘Hi, everyone’, and then ‘I’m surprised it’s taken me this long to mention that I’m a lawyer’. Lots of people like to tell you that they’re a lawyer pretty early on.”
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Michael Pelly is the legal editor, based in our Sydney newsroom. He has been a senior adviser to federal and state attorneys-general and written two books, one a biography of former High Court Chief Justice Murray Gleeson. Email Michael at michael.pelly@afr.com
