Who would have thought that the most promising UK law debut for years would have been made by San Francisco’s Heller Ehrman – for years dismissed as one of the much-hyped Californian legal community’s dullest members?

Yet here is Heller, officially opening for business this month from the 29th floor of the Gherkin with a decent team largely extracted from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr (see story, and another one).