This week’s ‘target’, Lovells’ managing partner, Lesley MacDonagh, was asked to write a few spontaneous lines. This is what her handwriting revealed:

Here we have a chatty, demonstrative personality with [as content nicely reflects] a delicious sense of humour. All that extra punctuation done to create a desired effect is akin to an actress in a leading role. Legibility, consistency and eveness of baseline conspire to indicate her liking for being in control – in particular, as far as closing down options is concerned. She will make clear that she needs to know just where she stands and so will then strive to make others close their options before she does, thus gaining a distinct advantage! The term arch-manipulator flits into my mind at this point.