Law firms spend a lot of time and money these days on trying to get away from the profession’s ‘anoraky’ image, wining and dining their clients in the trendiest restaurants and popping open the champers in the most fashionable night-spots. Not Essex firm Birkett Long, which held its summer party at the East Anglian Railway Museum near Colchester. Clients were treated to a ride on the 100-year-old ‘Birkett Long Express’, feasted on food that was only available when Second World War rationing was in place, and danced along to a swing jazz band. Marketing manager Clare Hamlet gushed: ‘The palpable excitement and subsequent feedback generated by the event has been unprecedented.‘ Or perhaps it has proved that at heart, solicitors really are just a bunch of train-spotters?
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