Bryan Wrench, solicitor for the stars, has had plenty of high-profile clients over the years.

But this week he’s found a way to complete what promises to be the year’s legal trifecta: Alan Jones, Jon Adgemis, and the ICAC, where he’s working for former big tobacco lobbyist Jeremy Greenwood.

Jones is standing trial on 22 counts of indecent assault and two counts of sexual touching without consent; he vehemently denies the allegations and is defending the charges. Then there’s Greenwood, the lobbyist and ICAC mystery man accused of being intimately involved in a plot to divert funds from Catholic Schools NSW to the so-called “Reformers”, a conservative sub-faction of the Liberal Party.

And finally, bankrupt failed entrepreneur and former KPMG dealmaker Adgemis, who has tried just about every trick in the book to stave off appearing at the Federal Court for a week-long examination of the $1.8 billion collapse of his hospitality empire.

Setting aside the fact that we were intrigued to see Wrench, a criminal lawyer, appear in Adgemis’ corner, the three matters showed signs of stretching the high-profile solicitor on Wednesday. Wrench was forced to hightail it to the Federal Court for Adgemis, from either Jones or the ICAC, which were both under way at the same time in different parts of the city.

After Federal Court registrar Susan O’Connor had ruled that examinees couldn’t listen in on others, Jamie Dimeo, another of Adgemis’ lawyers, was seen lurking on the hearing’s web-link on Wednesday morning. He left once reminded of the registrar’s orders. But the Adgemis intelligence-gathering didn’t end there.

Later in the day, a baby-faced lawyer, who appeared to those in the room to be about 20 years old, quietly walked in and started taking notes. During an adjournment, the liquidator’s barrister called her out, before she was brought up before the registrar. As it turned out, she was a clerk taking instructions from her boss, Wrench.

The poor clerk was then instructed by the registrar to get Wrench to dial in. Only minutes later, Wrench himself materialised, sporting a skintight double-breasted grey pinstripe suit. He seemed pretty agreeable on arrival, we’re told, and promised not to tell Adgemis anything, before leaving with his clerk in tow.

We can’t imagine she’ll be forgetting the experience any time soon.

Daryl’s downsizing

Well, this is a blast from the past. Former Wagga Wagga MP Daryl Maguire is, of course, set to face sentencing later this year, after he was found guilty of conspiring to create fake visa applications for Chinese nationals last month.

But apparently that’s not the reason he’s recently listed his five-bedroom, 15-hectare North Wagga Wagga home for sale, with an asking price of $2.9 million. Instead, the former politician and ex-partner of former NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian is merely “downsizing”, we’re told.

According to the listing, “Wagga’s best kept secret” is just seven minutes drive from the town centre, and comes with established hedging, mature trees and sweeping lawns. There are four double bedrooms, plus a study, with a walk-in robe and ensuite to the main, according to the listing.

It even comes with a horse agistment business! The property has 50 “well layed [sic] out paddocks” which can accommodate about 20 horses, plus a workers’ cottage.

When asked why Maguire was selling, Maguire’s lawyer, Jim Harrowell, said the former MP no longer needs all the space.

“Our client is nearly 70 and like many Australians he is downsizing he does not need a five-bedroom home that’s why the property is on the market,” Harrowell told CBD in an email.

No doubt the cash will come in handy whatever happens.

Ley’s return

Former opposition leader Sussan Ley’s ex-spinner Liam Jones went on to start his own consulting shop after the former opposition leader left politics this year.

But he’s clearly been missing the game – and the relevance that came with his old gig.

On Tuesday night, Jones revived the old background briefing WhatsApp group, which had been dormant since Ley was opposition leader, to let reporters know she would be on the ABC’s 7.30 to talk about the US road trip she wrote about for The Australian Financial Review.

After Ley left politics, Jones went on to set up a political consultancy shop, Deep Roads Strategy, and has been doing some lobbying work for the Movember men’s health charity. Jones was also recently in the US, where we hear he was the least notable attendee of the Australian American Leadership Dialogue in Washington, DC.

The Australian contingent for that talkfest included former prime minister Scott Morrison and former UN ambassador Mitch Fifield, along with Speaker Milton Dick, Labor senator Raff Ciccone, and Liberal senators James Paterson and Jonno Duniam. If Tuesday evening was anything to go by, we doubt Jones needed any invitation to talk his book.