A Personal Essay in Law & Life Behind the Wig & Gown: What Your Lawyer Carries Home
Purity K. Mbaabu & Associates Advocates · Advocates of the High Court of Kenya A Personal Essay in Law & Life Behind the Wig & Gown: What Your Lawyer Carries Home Secrets. Millions. Grief. Trust. The raw, extraordinary, and utterly human world inside a Kenyan advocate's chambers. By Purity K. Mbaabu ● Advocate of the High Court of Kenya ● Legal Services · Nairobi ✦ ✦ ✦ My alarm goes off at 5:47 a.m. Before I even pour my first cup of tea, my phone has already lit up with three WhatsApp messages. One is from a widow who couldn't sleep; she just found out her late husband's brothers are challenging the will. One is from a businessman whose property sale is collapsing at the eleventh hour. One is a voice note, fourteen minutes long, from a woman sobbing between words as she describes what her husband did. It is not yet 6 a.m., and I am already carrying other people's entire worlds. This is the daily life of an advocate of the High Co...