No sooner had last week’s Legal Week landed with a hearty slap on City desks – alerting readers to the five-star facilities on offer to Simmons & Simmons fee earners in Portugal – than the PR goons at SJ Berwin were bleating to The Diary about the firm’s own plush new premises by the Thames.

Little did they know that Legal Week spies had already been dispatched to case the joint, where our mole came away more impressed by the firm’s ultra-progressive restaurant regime than the spiraling atrium.