Exclusive: Firm mocks solicitor on his own profile

Lightfoots Solicitors has taken a novel approach to staff profiles by mocking one of its own lawyers on its own website.

Henry Ovens, a conveyancing solicitor at Lightfoots, certainly looks the part as he adopts the standard profile pose in front of leather-bound legal texts.

However his profile blurb is blank, save for a comment which states: "This author has yet to write their bio. Meanwhile lets just say we are proud Henry Ovens contributed a whooping 0 entries." Which seems to be a less-than gentle reminder to Ovens that he has failed to write any articles for the website. The solicitor may have to up his game when even his own profile page is sending him a sarcastic chaser.

Ovens with some books he'll never read

Whilst it it may be refreshing to see a profile without the usual mass of boasts and quotes, Ovens may be forced to reconsider his strategy when his next set of business cards arrives with "Can't be arsed" neatly printed under his name.

As an update, the sarcastic comment has now been removed from Ovens' profile, and so he appears to have won this round.

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Comments

I sincerely hope he finds a life partner called Hobbs. That would be awesome.

Let's be honest, who CAN be arsed to write the sort of inane drivel that apparently must be inserted under one's name? Fair play to the bloke, I'm glad he had better things to do.

This is so pointless. Some incredibly rude webmaster has slagged off a colleague - totally unprofessional on the webmaster's part. This poor chap might be new, might be a really good lawyer, probably isn't too pleased some prat of a webmaster has got him plastered on RoF. Rof decide to report he needs to up his game and doesn't read books. Is Rof some kind of school yard bully now? Is this the best RofF can do?

There are two Mr Ovens at Lightfoots, Henry George, admitted in 2011, and John Henry Ovens, admitted in 1980 (who is a Member and the firm's COFA). Perhaps they are related. Perhaps the caption is a good natured tease?

Re anonymous @ 12:43. Webmaster? Really? You used the word webmaster? Twice? What is this, 1993? If so, great, because at 3:30pm I can get out of school and run home to watch Knightmare

"Please keep it nice"?! - you sanctimonious bastards! You've just publicised this guy's ridicule among his peers and added some half-baked yucks of your own. You're not being nice! I don't mind chuckling when somebody makes an idiot of themselves overtly but this is plain horrible.

He's a Conveyancer. Poor man will be run off his feet and has obviously better things to do than right the half-arsed rubbish expected by the half-wit running the website.

If @13:03 is correct - it could just be an in joke at Lightfoots for Henry Jr. Fair enough.

Re ananoymous @ 14:25 - sincere apologies if i have used the wrong term - from your confident post I assume you are super-cool and have an undercut and tattoos with oodles of shoeditch-hipster-fixie-bike-ness to spare. I am a bit old and webmaster is all i know. I'm suprised you are old enough to remember knightmare - maybe you watched it on you tube on the interweb or heard about it on a tweet?

@ 15:28. Heh. I forgive you and apologise. Let's be friends. You have entirely redeemed yourself with "shoeditch-hipster-fixie-bike-ness". I don't know what that is but I like it. For what it's worth, I'm going to spend the weekend gardening so you can make your own mind up whether I'm cool or not.

Am I the only one who read 'He's a Conveyancer. Poor man will be run off his feet' and thought wtf are you on about?