With many City lawyers displaying all the people skills of a psychopathic starfish, it is small wonder that law firms spend so much cash getting advice on how to market themselves to clients and, increasingly, sell themselves in the media.

One City partner was mulling over the various strategies in use around the capital to woo the fourth estate when he drew an interesting comparison between the aforementioned Slaughters and the nation’s other favourite family of implausibly wealthy misfits.