South-coast firm Lester Aldridge is once more breaking the mould of many in the profession and producing witty and literate marketing material.

A couple of years back we had the entertaining 'Shockingly normal' campaign, in which its lawyers were pictured doing everyday stuff like playing football, swimming and ironing, all while in their business suits.

Now we have a rather more daring calendar inspired by a quote from Andy Warhol: 'Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.' The firm has interpreted this to mean that they can effectively stick the faces of their lawyers on famous works of art, from licensing lawyers Colin Patrick and Julia Palmer 'Dancing at the Moulin Rouge', as Henri Toulouse-Lautrec might have painted it (but didn't), through corporate lawyers Nick Gent, Susan Cowan, David Ashplant and Jamie Wollen offering a tribute to the Beatles, to Joanne McGuinness, Bob Robertson, Rob Chapman, Oonagh McKinney and Andrew Hignett of the real estate team taking 'lunch atop a skyscraper', by Charles C Ebbets.

[ This article refers to images that appear in the printed edtion (see [2004] Gazette, 8 January, 9) ]