What is it about Clifford Chance (CC) and emails? After all, it is not so very long ago (well, 2002) that the City monolith nearly crumbled to dust after the unfortunate ‘padding-gate’ episode due to a rogue memo falling into the wrong hands.

Now the firm has been rocked again by a scarcely-less incendiary missive from a departing junior lawyer, who sent a rambling but still entertaining memo to colleagues on his last day at the firm, 1 February.