Wordlab has an article on law firm names, with many links.
It cites a law.com article, and lists long names and spoof names. Dewey Cheatham and Howe even has a website.
Private Eye used to mention a firm called Sue Grabbit & Runne. There must be others.
An Eng. Conveyancing Solicitor I know once had a – very – short working spell at a law firm eccentrically called ‘Metford Metford-Sewell’ at Chiswick in West London.
I can’t remember exactly why the Senior Partner chose to double up on his surname – either for reinforced credibility or because there had to be 3 names in ‘Yer Average’ High Street Solicitors’ Firm name.
That has a certain je ne sais quoi.
I wonder if Metford-Sewell was the name of his wife? The only one I can get by Google is a Catherine Metford-Sewell, who stood on the Socialist party list for what appear to have been the 1993 local elections in Geneva.
http://www.geneve.ch/elections/19931017/res_candidat.asp?nocand=46&dsn=0
Well-researched! With that double- or treble-barreled name, it would be an incredible coincidence if she weren’t related to him.
Metford Metford – of advanced age 20 years ago – probably had already retired (to Switzerland?)pre-1993.
According to the Eng. & Wales Law Society’s Online Directory (solicitors.online.com), his eccentric firm’s name has also sunk with him.