Who? Brigid Turner, 32-year-old associate at Boodle Hatfield in Oxford, who specialises in family law.

Why is she in the news? Acted on the first known 'Viagra divorce' in Britain, in which a middle-aged woman cited the drug in her divorce petition because she claimed it led to what she felt was unreasonable, 'sexually aggressive' behaviour by her husband, also in his fifties.

Background: English degree at York University 1990-93 then CPE and LPC at the College of Law in London 1993-95.

Articles at Penningtons in the City 1995-97, then moved to Manches in London on qualification.

Joined Boodle Hatfield in Oxford in 2001, promoted to associate last year.

Route to the case: Referral from another client.

Thoughts on the case: 'The grounds for unreasonable behaviour in divorce are entirely subjective.

My client found her husband's change in behaviour intolerable, whereas thousands of women may have welcomed it.

I never anticipated that citing Viagra on the divorce petition would attract so much media attention - I am amazed at the media interest in what was really a pretty average divorce, if you can have such a thing.

Viagra was only one detail of the case.'

Dealing with the media: 'The media interest has been extraordinary, and it really stemmed from an interview which I gave with The Sunday Times.

I have had a lot of interview requests from other newspapers but I have refused.

It is very rare for it to be in the client's interest to get involved with newspapers - they have their own agenda.

Not The Sunday Times, but other newspapers already seemed to have decided what their angle was, and I am sure that nothing I could have said would have changed that.

The tabloids were certainly not interested in the legal merits of the case.'

Rachel Rothwell