Current Customs, Traditions and Vagaries of the Legal System in the Mother Country

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St. Louis Branch of
THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING UNION
 presents

CRAIG INGRAHAM, retired "Solicitor"
and THOMAS WACK, retired "Barrister"

"Current Customs, Traditions and
Vagaries of the Legal System
in the Mother Country"

Sunday, May 6, 2018
The Deer Creek Club
9861 Deer Creek Hill
off Log Cabin Lane, north from Litzsinger

Cocktails 12:30  ~  Lunch 1:00   
$37 members  ~  $42 guests

Craig Ingraham and Thomas Wack are both well-known figures on the corporate legal scene, and each has served in multiple capacities and positions at prominent firms. Good friends, as well, they are teaming up to provide a lighthearted but professional approach to what Americans often experience and joke about as the perplexing legal system of the United Kingdom. 

Craig, a St. Louis Branch ESU member, received his Juris Doctorate from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis. He retired from Novus International in 2015. Prior to joining Novus, he served as Vice President and General Counsel at TALX Corporation, a $1.5 billion provider of automated and outsourced HR services to the entire spectrum of American business, and for the Global Technology and Operations division of MasterCard International, Inc. He has also served as in house counsel for other prominent St. Louis companies.

Tom graduated from Northwestern University School of Law, with honors, and has been listed in Best Lawyer of the Year publications, achieving "Best Lawyers' Lawyer of the Year for 2015." He recently retired from Byron Cave, after 30 years of service there, successfully litigating commercial cases in state and federal courts, at both the trial and appellate levels. Since retirement, he has been representing clients in pro bono litigation, acting as judge in student and professional Moot Courts, and lecturing on legal history.

Craig and Tom will share their views of how the English — really, the UK — constitution and legal system in general are distinguished from their American counterparts. Focusing on the "unwritten" constitution (a common misconception in the US), the stratified bar (solicitors v. barristers), the criminal justice system, courtroom rules and procedures, and traditions like the robes and wigs that look so quaint to us, their legalese promises to be anything but dull!

Please send reservation/check to
E-SU, c/o Joan Buxton Falk (314-803-8927),
200 S. Brentwood - 8A, St. Louis, MO 63105  

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