Lawyers are not renowned for their candour (the old ‘how do you know when a lawyer is lying? His lips are moving’ joke is still a firm favourite), so any evidence of good old-fashioned straight talking from the legal profession is to be applauded.

But to find an example of that rarest of specimens, the honest lawyer, you will need to cross the Atlantic, head south and alight on the four-partner firm Powers Phillips, attorneys at law.