The Clooneys - is it real

[VanessaSanessa]

Just that, they seem so deliriously in love in every picture I've seen of them.

More power to them if they are that happy, they've both hit the jackpot in so many ways.

But.. to still look so enthralled with each other after so many years??

You’re no fan of hers and it’s pretty obvious your faux appreciation of her profession achievements isn’t genuine. That anything positive you’ve said about her was only said so you could then dismiss her achievements. You’re very transparent.

Well you’re mistaken. You can be successful and brilliant without needing to be the worlds most famous lawyer

Good grief, we get it you don’t like her! Maybe you hadn’t noticed her, but I had, but then I work in current affairs. She was working with Kofi Annan as well. If I look at my other barrister friends she was pretty high profile.

She is very accomplished but people shouldn’t over exaggerate. She lectured one summer. She was invited to do so but is not a regular professor. Also the Legal 500 isn’t quite what people seem to think it is. It’s a database of competence in different categories. It’s not the top 500.

• In the most recent UK guide, there were nearly 1,200 unique law firms ranked.
• The guide includes a total of almost 10,000 practice rankings across all the different areas.
• There are also almost 13,000 rankings for individual lawyers.

she is accomplished enough not to have to exaggerate

Your post is, to say the least, misleading, @bumbaloo.

The Legal 500 carries out a lot of research before producing its guides, and it goes to other professionals and lawyers' clients for the purpose. For barristers, they go in part to solicitors who instruct them. It really isn't "just" a database. It ranks a lot of lawyers because it covers a large number of practice areas and the whole country. However, in each practice area it only ranks a small number of barristers.

At the London Bar, Amal Clooney is ranked as a Leading Junior both in International human rights andcriminal law, and in Public international law. "Junior" simply means she's not a KC She comes in at level 1 in their rankings, at which level they only cite 7 barristers.

In the Chambers guide, which is arguably more stringent, she is in Band 1 one of only 11 barristers in International Human Rights Law, Band 2 in Public International Law; in International Criminal Law she is in as Spotlight.

She is also a Professor of Practice in International Law at Oxford, and an Honorary Fellow.

If you were consistently ranked in the top tier in your field of work, I think you'd be entitled to be regarded with a hell of a lot of respect. As is she.

I thought they lived in Italy full time so how does Amal actually do her lawyer work in the UK?

As I said earlier, semantics. She is clearly accomplished and to imply she has married for professional gain is unnecessarily and unjustifiably mean. All I have said is she was successful prior to her marriage which some people seem to find difficult to believe.

How this thread has turned into a bashing of a woman who seems to have done absolutely nothing to deserve it is utterly wild.

@Ratafia, many thanks for your post.

I agree!

Oh God yes, absolutely. And far better at playing sexy as Hell straight guy than most actually straight guys.

In Bridgerton he just ate her alive with his eyes!

I didn’t mean to be disparaging to AC at all by my comments, and certainly didn’t mean that SHE chose to project a frivolous image- but it’s the image I think most people see of her since she married- as a celebrity rather than a lawyer. We don’t generally see front page photos of her outside the courts, wearing legal robes, or at serious meetings (unless it’s the Guardian😂) - we see pictures of her at the Met Gala or the Venice film festival wearing fabulous dresses, and gossipy articles about baby showers or her hairstyle etc. It influences peoples perceptions, that’s all I’m saying, which is a shame as she’s a powerful lawyer who’s involved in extremely serious and challenging cases. Google image searches for “Amal Clooney” and “ Amal Clooney lawyer” comes up with 2 very different types of photos. It’s interesting.

@Tealeaf3

I think if there are more pictures of her wearing fabulous clothes and attending the Met Gala than there are of her in her work clothes, it says more about the values of the people taking the pictures/posting them than it does about Amal Clooney.

And are the pictures of her wearing fabulous clothes or attending the Met Gala bigger than everything Amal achieved before or since she married George Clooney? I think not. But if in the minds of some they are, then once again surely that says more it says more about those people than it does about her.

I agree with you, the way she’s presented in the media since she got married probably doesn’t represent her values. Many people will have no idea of the kind of high level work she does, including some posters on this thread. But that’s the way the media works - Amal Clooney in a fancy dress is always going to get more clicks/ views/ readers than Amal Clooney looking knackered in a courtroom. That’s my point.

Pray tell. Who is this reliable source of yours? This is such a revealing thread. Did not expect there to be so many foolish gossips here