The Diary is always keen to hear of new wheezes to get client-focused. That is why we applaud law firms setting up sector teams to ‘mirror’ clients’ money, er business lines.

But your scribe is forced to conclude that this trend can go too far, or at least that was the case for one partner who was ordered to stop acting for a chain of well known naughty clothiers, scandalously on the basis that it ‘conflicted’ with his firm’s new sector focus.