Tony Blair is just one who started his career as a lawyerWassily Kandinsky was an unusual lawyer. He went on to have a second successful career as an artist. But most lawyers thinking of a change end up doing something a little more predictable.

The majority of itchy-footed City lawyers will simply decide to swap their desk at a law firm for a similar desk elsewhere in the square mile. And the more risque lawyers decide to go in-house.