Sorry to bang on about the Legal Week Top 50. But regular sightings of well-thumbed copies of Legal Week‘s 20 July issue during visits around the City suggest we are not the only ones who have been poring over the figures.

It may have been a boom year for the UK’s leading firms, but this has done nothing to temper the traditional bout of soul-searching, gripes and insecurity that accompanies the publication of the annual results.