HandwritingLegal Week has teamed up with legal recruiter Graham Gill to test the interpretive skills of top graphologist Diane Simpson. Each week, we will give her a sample of a leading lawyer’s scribblings and ask her to analyse it.

This week’s ‘victim’, Slaughter & May’s corporate star Nigel Boardman, was asked to write a few spontaneous lines. The only information provided was that the writer is male. This is what his handwriting revealed: