The number-crunching boffins at accountancy behemoth PricewaterhouseCoopers did not go up in Obiter's estimation last week with the release of their annual report into the finances of large law firms. For one thing, it explained gravely how 90% of the top-ten firms and 57% of the top 100 firms responded (that would be nine and 57 firms respectively, would it?) and then rather confused us with figures such as '89% of the top-ten' are looking to expand their China operations (it took us a bit of time to realise that this meant eight out of the nine). Then the press release on the PwC website linked readers to the full report, where it could be purchased for the princely sum of £150. Except that they could also download it for free from the media centre. A spokesman said the former option was for those who liked to have their copies bound, but frankly, for £150, if you are that bothered you would be better off printing it out for free and getting the tea-boy to run it down to your local print shop for binding. We can only assume that when it comes to advising law firms on their finances, PwC is clearer in the way it presents figures