Why do law firms persist in holding competitions among their own, let’s face it, pretty unimaginative ranks to name stuff? Diary veterans will remember the debacle that ensued after Eversheds held a poll to name its new pad in Manchester only to end up with Eversheds House.

Undeterred, White & Case has surveyed its own to find a tag for its new, er, canteen – and just in case its associates were suffering from creative meltdown after all that drafting, they dangled the carrot of dinner for two at the Ivy in front of them.