This week it is solicitors on foot – and at all altitudes too. A team of six from regional firm Geldards scaled the three tallest peaks in the UK – Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon – and came home first with a time of 23 hours and 29 minutes. So inspiring was the victory that four of them are looking to run the London marathon next year (although in less than 23-and-a-half hours, Obiter hopes). The group was competing in the Kaplan 3 Peaks Challenge, raising £2,500 for charity Care International UK, which tackles third-world poverty.

Back at sea level, nine solicitors from Darlingtons, mixed up with a few clients and staff, completed the British 10k run in London, raising £4,000 for the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign. Vijay Parikh, a partner in the London firm’s property department, drew inspiration from Elgar as the troupe marched on: ‘When you’re going through Parliament Square and you hear Land of Hope and Glory ringing out, it really spurs you on to the finish line.’ It worked – all 14 of them finished.

And to keep the ‘I ran the marathon faster than you ran the marathon’ competition going, we have a new benchmark: Nathaniel Lane, a solicitor in regional firm Morgan Cole’s IT law group, came 33rd overall in this year’s London Marathon in 2 hours, 24 minutes and 46 seconds.

Beat that…