Richard J. Szrabe

1982-2009: barrister (called Middle Temple; ad eundem Lincoln's Inn). Latterly at 13 Old Square Chambers, Lincoln's Inn, London. Retired in good standing 2009. Present status at Middle Temple is 'Withdrawn Membership'; category 'Non-Practising Barrister' (Middle Temple's Head of Membership's October 10, 2022 letter, 'To whomever it may concern')

Pre-retirement affiliations included Fellow, Royal Society of Medicine, Royal Society of Arts, Royal Geographical Society; once a Visiting Scholar, Harvard Law School, Visiting Fellow, Kingston University School of Law, Visiting Professor, George Washington Law School, etc.

2011: Changed last name to Szrabe from Astor.

Is consternated by:-

DISHONEST LAWYERS: in more than 50 years interacting with lawyers, he has known only a very small handful of honest lawyers, hence Lawyer Rackets and Get A Grip

INHERITANCE CRIMINALITY: dishonest executors, ad col grantees, interim administrators, full administrators, heirs (especially in cliques), specialist lawyers (including solicitors and barristers on the same side), judges, accountants, police, regulators etc: an ecosystem of villainy in plain view: hence Inheritance Crime and Accounting and Auditing in Inheritance Crime

OPPRESSIVE SUPPRESSION OF FREE SPEECH including by dishonest defamation plaintiffs and dishonest defamation defendants; corrupt defamation litigation; SLAPP; gauche, docile, uninformed, easily frightened utterers; ridiculous legislation suppressing public dissent, etc: hence Defamation War Room

Is appalled by endemic misinformation, misunderstanding, illiteracy, incompetence, hesitancy, inexperience, cowardice among victims of lawyer, inheritance and defamation scams, cons, heists and rackets, hence the six mould-breaking, ground-breaking titles.

These books, with their interesting proactivity extras, are going to make that all-important global difference.