Cutesiness abounds at this time of year, especially in law firm Christmas cards designed by local schoolchildren and the growing trend of law firm calendars also produced by kids.

Leeds firm Walker Morris has managed both, but top of the shop is Bolton-based Keoghs, which has given schoolchildren in Bolton and Coventry a useful early insight into the corporate world by having them illustrate the firm's values month by month (the Walker Morris children at least got to depict what they liked about each month).

So the likes of ten-year-old Ross Papworth rather bravely took on 'We constructively challenge the way things are', while Collette Yates, who is nine, got her teeth into 'we are focused on providing legal and business solutions' (pictured below).

More than 300 children from 12 schools entered to be included in the calendar, and another who can claim playground bragging rights is six-year-old Emma Perkins, pictured here putting the finishing touches on 'We celebrate success and recognise achievement'.

Suggestions that the example for the 'K' behind her is to be changed to 'Keoghs', the 'M' to 'Marketing' and the 'C' to 'Child labour' are just rumours, we're assured.

[This article refers to images that appear in the printed edition, see [2003] Gazette, 19 December, 8]