Lawyers
Including both the British Solicitor* and Barrister* and the US Lawyer or mouthpiece.
- Ebenezer Attwater
- Solicitor to Mrs Jervis. He lent £200 to her nephew, Berry Conway showing he's a good chap in Big Money.
- Sam Bagshott
- A Barrister, eking out his lawyer's income by writing in Galahad at Blandings.
- Max Bellamy
- Solicitor to J. B. Hoke in Big Money.
- Sir Joseph Bodger
- A barrister in The Romance of a Bulb-squeezer.
- Boles, Boles, Wichett, Widgery and Boles
- Solicitors of Lincoln's Inn Fields in Summer Moonshine.
- Bolger, Bolger, Bolger and Bolger
- Solicitors to Horace Appleby in Do Butlers Burgle Banks?
- Brigney, Goole and Butterworth
- Acting for client in opposition to Marlowe, Thorpe, Prescott, Winslow and Appleby, as mentioned in The Girl on the Boat.
- Bunting, Satterthwaite and Miles
- Solicitors, including Cyril Bunting, acting for Lord Tilbury in Frozen Assets.
- Bunting and Satterthwaite
- Solicitors for Donaldson's Inc. in Life with Freddie.
- Bruce Carmyle
- A barrister, based in the Temple in The Adventures of Sally.
- Mr Driscoll, Q. C.
- A barrister who makes a quick escape from a club acquaintance in From a Detective's Notebook.
- Nicholas Erridge
- Solicitor of Nichols, Erridge, Trubshaw and Nichols, mentioned in Bachelors Anonymous.
- Finch, Finch, Finch, Butterfield and Finch
- A corporate law firm in America, one member of which left a fortune in The Small Bachelor.
- John Halliday
- A barrister in A Pelican at Blandings.
- Harrison, Harrison and Harrison
- Mr Harrison of 18A Bream Buildings, London E. C. in A Man of Means.
- Haskell and Green
- A legal firm in Frozen Assets.
- Maître Laboudeux
- A French lawyer or avocat who once acted for the hereditary princes of Mervo in A Prince for Hire.
- J. Bromley Lippincott
- Attorney-at-law of Lippincott, Lippincott, Cohn, Mandelbaum and Lippincott in Barmy in Wonderland.
- Mainprice, Mainprice and Boole
- Offices at 3 Denvers Street, Strand, London. Used by J. Preston Peters in Something Fresh.
- Marlowe, Thorpe, Prescott, Winslow and Appleby
- Offices in Ridgeway's Inn, near Fleet Street. The only surviving partner is Sir Mallaby Marlowe and the clerk is John Peters. Featured in The Girl on the Boat.
- Mrs McCorkadale
- A barrister, standing for the parliamentary seat of Market Snodsbury in a by-election in Much Obliged, Jeeves. She is a fair fighter.
- Jeff Miller
- A junior and probably now ex-barrister in Money in the Bank.
- Jellicoe-Smith
- Appeared in court so probably a solicitor. Mentioned in Something Fresh.
- Jerry Nichols
- Of Nichols, Nichols, Nichols and Nichols, with offices in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. Jerry Nichols is last of the four in Uneasy Money.
- Of Nichols, Erridge, Trubshaw and Nichols, of Bedford Row, London in Bachelors Anonymous.
- Parbury, Parbury, Parbury and Stevens
- Solicitors to Lord Worplesdon in Disentangling Old Percy.
- Peabody, Peabody, Peabody, Peabody, Cootes, Toots and Peabody
- Employing George Mackintosh in The Salvation of George Mackintosh.
- Peabody, Thrupp, Thrupp, Thrupp, Thrupp and Peabody
- Of Lincoln's Inn, mentioned in The Ordeal of Osbert Mulliner.
- Edwin Phillimore
- Of Birkett, Birkett, Birkett, Son, Podmarsh and Birkett, solicitors. Once bitten by a guinea pig, as mentioned in Sam the Sudden.
- Horace Plimsoll
- Family lawyer to the Earls of Havershot in Laughing Gas.
- Homer Pyle
- Corporate lawyer with the firm Pyle, Wisbeach and Hollister of New York in The Girl in Blue.
- Mr Robbins
- Solicitor of Robbins, Robbins, Robbins and Robbins, working for T. Paterson Frisby in Big Money.
- Satterthwaite and Bunting
- Offices in London. Solicitors to Donaldson's Inc. (purveyors of Donaldson's Dog-joy), Arnold Pinkney and Judson Phipps in Life with Freddie. Mr Bunting is well stricken in years and has a poor digestion - his midday meal consists of a glass of hot water. Mr Satterthwaite is his partner.
- Scrope, Ashby and Pemberton
- Solicitors in Bedford Row, London, including Mr Willoughby Scrope in The Girl in Blue
- Shoesmith, Shoesmith, Shoesmith and Shoesmith
- Solicitors to Lord Emsworth, based at Lincoln's Inn Fields in Service with a Smile.
- Mr Shoesmith (head of the above) appears in Money in the Bank and Ice in the Bedroom and is mentioned in Frozen Assets.
- Snell, Hazlewood and Delane
- Solicitors giving good news to Jimmy Pitt in The Gem Collector.
- Mr Stoganbuhler
- A New York lawyer, acting for Jane Hunnicut in The Girl in Blue.
- Ephraim Trout
- Of the US legal firm Trout, Wapshott and Edelstein who do business with Ivor Llewellyn, in Bachelors Anonymous.
- B. J. Trubshaw
- Solicitor of Nichols, Erridge, Trubshaw and Nichols, mentioned in Bachelors Anonymous.
- J. G. Wetherby
- Solicitor to the Bassinger family, working for Polk, Wetherby, Polk and Polk, in If I Were You.
- Watson, Watson, Watson, Watson and Watson
- Solicitors of Lincoln's Inn Fields in Big Business.
- Henry Weems
- Lawyer with Kelly, Dubinsky, Wix, Weems and Bassinger of Long Island in French Leave.
- Willoughby & Son
- Solicitors of London. 'Son' serves a writ in A Damsel in Distress.
* For an explanation of the difference, see Our Man in England.
Solicitors in England can only form partnerships together but can work for companies or public bodies. Barristers are self employed but group together to share offices and support staff in 'chambers'. The clerk of the chambers is a very powerful chap as he hands out the work.
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