Intelligence reaches Charterhouse Street of the marketing strategy of media-savvy luvvies Hammond Suddards, as The Diary hears the firm has been expanding its team to the size of a small army – a tenth the size of Eversheds’, in other words.
The Diary was curious about the exhaustive selection process that Hammonds puts prospective employees through until he heard the story behind the hiring of one particularly high-level marketing bod. Apparently, the man in question is a long-standing mate of Hammonds’ managing partner, Chris Jones, a factor that perhaps overcame his, ahem, freshness to the world of law.
On accepting the job, the employee is reported to have said: “So Chris, what’s all this business about a magic circle?”
