With spring in the air once more, lawyers, like the rest of us, will soon be out looking for love. However, if the results of a survey into lawyers’ dating habits by US matchmaking agency It’s Just Lunch, published in the Texas Lawyer, are to be believed, one thing they should avoid at all cost is inter-profession dating.

According to the survey, lawyers spend less money on first dates with lawyers than they do with non-lawyers and are less likely to have sex on their first four dates.