Meet your Committee: Robert Adams

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Meet your Committee: Robert Adams

Robert Adams

If you weren’t a lawyer, what would you be?

Probably a footballer but bear in mind I am from Stoke and I am so old Stanley Matthews was still playing there but sadly I never got to see him play. If I wasn’t a lawyer with hindsight anything that involved lots of world travel and good beaches and sunshine.

What were your reasons for getting into law?

I won’t lie – money, but the biggest lie was I was told there was money in the law. I was 10 years too late!

What career advice would you give to your younger self?

Think long and hard about what you want to spend your working life doing before jumping in too quickly.

What’s the worst career advice you have received from someone?

Go into the law – you will be retired by the time you’re 55 with your feet up!

If you could change one thing in your job, what would it be?

A more comfy chair.

What’s the Best/Worst career decision you’ve ever made?

Best career decision was to move to Shropshire 20+ years ago – worst decision was not moving to Shropshire before then.

What’s the best bit about your job?

Never knowing day to day what is coming and the diverse and varied clients you deal with – all makes life constantly interesting.

Dream Dinner guests (alive or dead)?

Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Marilyn Monroe and Ian Botham.

Favourite quote/film/book?

Quote: “a lie unchallenged becomes the truth”

Film: Casablanca

Book: Great Expectations

Greatest life achievement?

Getting here at all to the happy place I am in.

Robert Adams, is a Partner in the Family Department at Wace Morgan solicitors and is a former President of Shropshire Law Society.