Eternal pleasuresAlistair McGrigor, who has recently qualified into the construction team at City firm Macfarlanes, is quite a catch.

According to a newsletter produced by the team, his experience of working on a building site during summer holidays,mixing cement and hod-carrying, means he is already well-versed in his clients' business (while opening him up to 'cowboy lawyer' jokes, of course).

But, the newsletter adds, from his time studying classics at Cambridge, Mr McGrigor is also the firm's 'top expert on eroticism in Ancient Rome'.

Any law firm worth its salt has one, Obiter presumes.