We all know that there is a somewhat shady (many would say downright sleazy) side to the sale of legal software – and to pick on any one vendor for frequenting lapdancing clubs on business would be grossly unfair because most of them indulge from time to time. Let he (or more likely, she) who is truly blameless cast the first stone, and all that.

But after last year’s Legal IT 2002 show at the Royal Armouries in Leeds, so many legal IT suppliers and consultants crammed into one ‘adult entertainment’ venue in the city centre that the place nearly ran out of tables.