A hairy state of affairs

London firm Campbell Hooper's recent partner and assistant conference at the swanky Berkeley Hotel culminated in a big bash at the hotel's trendy Vong restaurant.

Lawyers are the kind of clientele - discreet conversations about business - that a pukka hotel would relish, you might think.

If so, the staff must have had a nasty surprise when the highlight of the evening turned out to be a partners' hairy chest competition.

The details remain hazy, but Obiter can exclusively reveal that the runner-up was Brian Walsh, head of the charities group.

Drum roll please for the winner, and step forward litigator and lord of the legal jungle Graham Atkins.

May the fuzz be with you.