Ring of truth

It would not be unfair to describe the legal profession as one that is slow to move with the times, at least sartorially.

But as we have highlighted in recent weeks, solicitors are beginning to shift away from the narrow conventions of the legal dress code.

However, dress down Fridays are another thing altogether; Rob Good, a newly appointed partner at with-it north London legal aid practice Hodge Jones & Allen, is the first partner Obiter has come across to sport a discreet earring.

We now eagerly await the day when Slaughter and May makes up its first partner with a mohican haircut and nose stud.