Lawyer’s £300,000 for writing letter: A German lawyer won himself a place in the Guinness Book of Records after he earned more than £300,000 for less than an hour’s work. Dr Juergen Graefe won the fee for sending a standard letter to the German taxman to correct an elderly client’s tax bill. The letter pointed out that his client could not have possibly run up a 287 million euro tax bill on his 17,000 euro income from investments. The taxman agreed and amended the amount to a few thousand euros and, under German law, the lawyer based his fee on … Continue reading Lawyers aren’t Always Bad