Addleshaw Goddard has plenty going for it according to senior partner Monica Burch. The firm has an enviable client roster and in the last year borrowings dropped and revenues increased. On Tuesday (1 April), it won one of three formal spots on drinks giant Diageo’s nation-wide panel.

And yet neither current Addleshaws partners nor former acolytes can deny that the firm has had a bit of a fraught time recently.