While managing partners doubtless lament that cybernetic technology has yet to be fully harnessed in the pursuit of profitability, further proof came last week that modernisation in the legal profession continues nonetheless.

As sensationally revealed by Legal Week, the Institute of Barristers’ Clerks is set to vote on measures that would force clerks to give up their day job selling knock-off Rolexes from the back of a Transit van in order to attend compulsory vocational training.