For all the tough talking from big City swingers like Boardman and Cheyne, the real hard men of law can be found in Scotland. And none are hardier than at Glasgow giant Maclay Murray & Spens, where weather-beaten partners routinely rough it on a meagre £275,000 a year.

Litigation partner David Leckie is one of 12 Maclays lawyers who took part this week (23-24 September) in the Hannibal Challenge, a gruelling 75km slog across the southern French Alps to Italy, all in the name of charidee.