Those who remember the infamous e-mail from a Norton Rose lawyer about his girlfriend, which spread rapidly across the country and beyond, probably do not need a warning about the perils of such communications, but clearly the lesson has not been learned in Holland. It was reported this week that a Dutch law student wrote in an e-mail how he had 'finally finished this stupid education' and was 'now looking for someone crazy enough to dump a suitcase full of money in my lap every month'. He meant to send it to a friend at a leading Dutch firm, but got the address wrong and sent it to someone else at the firm. That person forwarded it and, in the way of these things, it has now been seen by virtually every lawyer in the land. According to AP, one lawyer who saw the e-mail wrote 'Good luck with your career', while another noted that 'the advantage is that now everyone in the legal profession in Holland knows your name'. And certainly, it does not appear to have kiboshed his legal plans, as the firm in question is among those shortly to interview him for a job. But that is a lesson which, again, the City already knows. There are, after all, plenty of law firms in the Square Mile crazy enough to dump several suitcases full of money in the laps of callow young lawyers every month.