Following the depressing news that Jones Day’s newly expanded London operation, Jones Day Gouldens, was instituting a redundancy programme, The Diary was delighted to receive details of a heavy-hitting M&A transaction emerging from its excited PR function.

However, we could not fail to notice that, in their excitement, someone forgot to proof-read the press release, which referred all the way through to “international law firm Jones Day”, with no mention of poor old Gouldens.