Trump card

Law firm summer parties are usually fairly small-beer affairs in the wider London social calendar.

But media and family niche practice Schillings last week managed to pull off a bit of a coup by throwing a bash that would be better reflected in the pages of Tatler or Heat than in this esteemed diary column.

For example, it is unlikely that New York socialite Ivana Trump (pictured above - second from left - with Schillings partner, ex-Mirror-man, Martin Cruddace, far right) often finds herself partying with London's legal finest.

But Schillings' summer party proved to be a massive lure to Ms Trump, and a drain on global lip-gloss supplies.

Elsewhere in the throng at London's fashionable Sanderson Hotel were gameshow darling Carol Vorderman, television starlet Lysette Anthony, and a gaggle of models from Naomi Cambell's agency - although the great one herself was unable to attend.

If this trend continues, Obiter will have to bin the pin-stripes in favour of something more fashionable.