What better way of shaking off the holiday funk as you emerge blinking and overindulged (or flu-ridden in my case) into 2011 than a good old-fashioned list piece? It’s a timeless standby for those moments when you’re not yet back into the swing of things and very little interesting has yet happened to write about.

But since I can’t face the dreaded ‘predictions for the year’ format, instead I’m throwing down with five things law firms like to believe that are usually total cobblers: