George Palmer

I don't think it's really me, any of it.

Well, I've got to be honest and say while I was going through law school, it was something that I just had to go through.

I didn't, I find it fascinating.

mildly intellectually interesting but not passionately engaging.

It was only when I actually graduated and I started

actually using the knowledge I had acquired and the skills I had acquired, dealing with real people, dealing with real problems, seeing how the system actually worked rather than in the sort of vacuum of academia, that I really then became very engaged in it and quite passionate about it, I have to say.

It was commercial law.

And it sounds dull and dry and almost mercenary, but you're dealing with people.

You're dealing with human beings who are flawed.

Some are admirable.

Some are mercenary and despicable.

They're all wanting to get something to do something.

And dealing with all of that was a very good illustration of how the machinery of society in dispute resolution works, how commerce works, how we deal with each other when A wants something that B has, B wants something from A. So it was an education in the human experience.

Yes, well, it was, bearing in mind that both my parents, with some justification,

always feared that at any moment I would stuff everything up and make a complete fool of myself.

And I say that, you know, lovingly, that they had complete justification of thinking so because I did it often enough.

Oh, just, you know, he's not a real lawyer.

He's only pretending and they'll find out.

LAUGHTER

But they were immensely proud, immensely proud.