There is more to rugby, Obiter has learned, than Neanderthal foreheads, cauliflower ears and a taste for communal bathing. The game for hooligans played by gentlemen also has a charitable side. Three rugby-playing solicitors are to help raise £100,000 for leukaemia research in memory of lifelong friend and all-round sportsman, Richard Thomas, who died of the disease in 1997, aged 22. Competition law specialist Ray Cahill (pictured right) of City firm Herbert Smith, in-house counsel Keith Ormondroyd (pictured left) of Warner Music UK and sole practitioner Dominic Savage of RA Savage & Co are taking part in the Rugby March 2009, a 550-mile trek visiting every Guinness Premiership rugby ground in the country. They also plan to set a world record for the longest continuous passing of a rugby ball. The march starts on 5 May at Newcastle Falcons and ends on 16 May at Twickenham. To support the Rugby March 2009, visit: www.justgiving.com/rugbymarch2009.