Tyre-ing work

That lawyers have to be intimately acquainted with their clients' businesses is long-established wisdom that they probably don't even bother teaching at client relationship conferences any more.

But midlands firm Howes Percival has admirably taken this to new extremes having won a tender to advise tyre distribution company ATS Euromaster.

Here, commercial property partner Siobhan Duff gets to grips with changing a tyre, an experience which should come in pretty useful next time she's negotiating the lease of a tyre distribution centre.

The real question here, however, is why the firm didn't have a trainee on hand to do it for her?