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'Anna Beaumont (pictured, centre), chief executive of gunnercooke, said: ‘We have always felt that junior lawyers would become better rounded advisers if their training focused more on the development of commercial and business skills.'

Whilst I don't deny that the possession of commercial and business skills may aid the giving of good legal advice, I'm not sure I'd go as far as to say that junior lawyers' training should be more focused on this. After all, presumably their clients go to their legal advisers primarily for legal advice. Thus the focus of their training should be their legal skills. Or maybe Ms Beaumont has been slack in her use of the verb 'focus'?