The Diary recently heard how one UK senior partner spends his weekends planting trees in a bid to off-set his Bigfoot-sized carbon imprint, while Eversheds has been touting the eco-credentials of its moss-topped new premises for months – even locating the place on the suitably rural-sounding Wood Street.

Mishcon de Reya is the latest firm saddling up to save the whale (or planet, or whatever) and recently purchased 10 fold-up bikes for staff to use as an environmentally-friendly (and much cheaper) alternative to carbon-based transport. Or ‘taxis’, if you will.