Solicitors will already be familiar with the term LeO to describe the Legal Ombudsman, which opened last October. But this could so easily have been a far more amusing acronym, as the ombudsman himself reveals in his blog. Adam Sampson says the complaints body considered various options before settling on LeO, including LOO (Legal Ombudsman’s Office); LOS (Legal Ombudsman Service); and Obiter’s personal favourite, LegO, until ‘trademark issues and wiser heads intervened’. Shame. Sampson admits ‘the semiotics of LeO are not without risk’, but adds: ‘Overall, I don’t mind us being seen as slightly scary’.
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