Half of Paris may have had its elaborate lace knickers in a twist last week over the final of the UEFA Champions League, but an altogether more riotous affair was taking place just down the road as delegates, including the stars of the in-house community, gathered for the Legal Week Corporate Counsel Forum.

With more networking than your average IT mainframe, our “value-adding” friends of the in-house world compared notes over best practice and indulged in some fine “innovation-focused” management speak.