Name gamesCelebrating a merger with a series of brain-testing anagrams is something only lawyers would do, and Berwin Leighton Paisner's consciousness-raising advertisements do set a challenge.

Rather than just come up with a series of unrelated words, as the firm has done, is there a meaningful sentence to be had out of the letters? Obiter spent a happy bank holiday weekend trying ('law in his top green brine', anyone?) and failing, but did find several 'Paul is dead' style messages contained in the new firm's long name.

'Beer is top', for example, a surely illegal call to 'bring pot' and the more metaphysical 'law is right'.

But what sealed the merger was the fact that hidden within Berwin Leighton Paisner is the realisation that the 'winner is the law'.