Is there no end to Nigel Knowles' expansion plans? The DLA managing partner clearly has eyes on Devon and Cornwall as part of 'the Vision' of creating a top five European law firm by 2005.

Allegedly, the photo is intended to celebrate the firm raising more than its target of 500,000 for the WellChild charity, but we are not so sure.

Pictured left to right are Knowlesy himself, WellChild's chief executive Kedge Martin, and Professor Richard Cooke of the WellChild neonatal unit in Liverpool.

This article refers to images that appear in the printed edition [2004] Gazette, 29 April, page 12