It is good to be in demand. Law graduates are a hot commodity and each year the biggest players in the legal arena circle above the latest crop with customary ruthlessness.

Which firm’s corporate mast ought you to nail your colours to? Try finding a modern international law firm whose website does not highlight their unique client focus, legendary global connections and world-renowned professionalism. Pore over countless impossibly glossy recruitment brochures, proclaiming each firm more uncompromisingly welcoming, more resolutely dynamic, more relentlessly innovative than the last. Buzzwords swarm like hornets over catalogue shots of beaming hopefuls with sparkling eyes and shining white teeth, gazing happily towards an even brighter tomorrow.