If I look back at the 12 months or so I’ve been blogging, it is fair to say I’ve sometimes been a tiny bit critical of aspects of the Big(ish) Law model. Work/life balance, inflated salaries for junior lawyers and the funding by clients of high six or even seven-figure PEP levels have featured in my musings.

But this blog is in praise of Big Law. And if that comes over as at all patronising then I’m sorry, it is genuinely not meant to.