w. lenhardt
I also practised for a short time with Leon during the Downton, MacDonand, Plotkins, Sveen, etc. days, and did some of Leons personal work. What made him truly unique was a subtle sense of humour, together with a unique chuckle--he expected good work, but without being overly serious about it. I havent seen Leon for quite a few years, but remember the time I evicted a fellow in a wheelchair whose loud parties at all hours and days of the week had a whole floor up in arms in the apartment block he then owned. (a lawyer acquaintance down at Masters Chambers asked me what we did to little old ladies)... Or when we agreed to (successfully) focus on the fact that baby horses were born on a country holding property he owned, to argue that the taxes should be reduced. Or when he would have me drive his immaculate ten-year-old Olds Toronado to the 400 club for lunch (with or without one of his clients). I never did see his rumored angry side (golf club wrapped around a tree at Earl Grey, was the hearsay), but I fondly remember my association with him at the time. He was a good lawyer, but a special man.
