It’s well known that the rugby fields of England’s public schools have proved a particularly fertile breeding ground for legal talent, with many of the City’s top lawyers having hauled themselves up, bloodied and beaten, from the bottom of a ruck on more than one occasion.

(Although whether Eversheds’ Cardiff chief Alan Meredith is bragging about his own rugby credentials – as a former pro with Swansea RFC – in light of his countrymen’s abject exit from the World Cup is another matter.)