Forget 25-partner culls, worrying evidence reaches The Diary that Lovells really is losing its cuddly-fluffy-bunnies-of-City-law image.

The Diary speaks of the poor Lovells assistants who were banned from wearing their England football shirts at a recent firm screening of the match with Trinidad & Tobago, with the firm apparently worried that a group of red-crossed billing monkeys would upset the firm’s lucrative Caribbean practice.