City lawyers were out in force at last week’s Standard Chartered Great City Race. The first man across the line was Chris Busaileh (pictured), trainee at Speechly Bircham, while Reed Smith’s Karen Ellison and Lawrence Graham’s Gemma Jones claimed seventh and eighth in the female rankings.
In the team events, Slaughter and May’s über-competitive men’s team came an impressive second. The race raised money for charity Seeing is Believing, which aims to eradicate avoidable blindness.
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