Burns night is no pipe-dream

The bagpipes are not all that different from a law firm partnership, when you think about it.

It's a tremendously old-fashioned and unwieldy instrument, whose different bits go off in all directions if you're not careful; it requires a lot of hot air to keep going, and the sound it makes can be sometimes dissonant, sometimes harmonious.

Such thoughts were no doubt going through the heads of the good folk at south-east firm asb law, which recently held a Burns' night dinner in the grand surroundings of Leeds Castle in Kent, although if they really wanted to attract Scottish clients, not covering their ears from the glorious wail of the pipes might have been the order of the day.

Pictured above (from left) we have head of corporate finance Jonathan Grant, chief executive Christopher Honeyman Brown, piper David Tyrrell, senior partner Ray Harris, client Alyson Howard from Meta Corporate Finance, and toastmaster John Lawrence.