More entries for our competition to find out firms served by generations of the same family. We have heard from Nigel Wollen, the fourth generation of senior partners at Hooper & Wollen in Torquay - founded by his great grandfather in 1863 - but he fears the dynasty has hit the buffers. His three daughters are all pursuing other careers, so hope now rests on his nephew (the founder's great-great-grandson), who is a solicitor in London. Of course, we have already had one fifth generation entrant - Tim Monckton of Whitehead Monckton - and now we have another, also in Kent: Andrew Wright, managing partner of Clarkson Wright & Jakes. He may not be able to top his Kentish rival in legally qualified forebears ('not yet, at least'), but Mr Wright explains that his mother's father was a lawyer as well, as are his wife and both his brothers-in-law. 'Sunday lunch discussions tend to turn into heated debates,' he recounts.


Along the same lines, the Law Society Council no less is getting in on the act. Fleur Palmer has been elected by the City of London to sit on the council, where she will join her mother, Penny Palmer, who has represented the Crown Prosecution Service since 2002.