It is an old adage that there are no more than six degrees of separation between everyone on the planet, in theory linking a provincial solicitor in Weston-Super-Mare with a yak farmer in Mongolia.
Try this one out, for example. DLA supremo Nigel Knowles is in merger talks with Piper Rudnick. One of Piper’s partners is George Mitchell, Bill Clinton’s envoy to Northern Ireland. Bill Clinton did not have sex with Monica Lewinsky, whose biography, Monica’s Story, was written by Andrew Morton, who wrote the blockbuster biography of Diana Princess of Wales, who died with lover Dodi Fayed, who was the son of Mohammed Al Fayed.
