Staff in Vinson & Elkins' London office would be well advised to start practising dance moves after their US colleagues threw down the gauntlet with a stunning music video.

V&E vacation scheme students uploaded their effort, which they called 'Tartfeasors', to Youtube after roping in principals to dance along to Pharrell's ubiquitous summer hit 'Happy'.





After a man in a boater grooves across the lobby and down V&E's stairwell, a parade of delighted students stream out of, what else, rolling storage.



 
Some seem so delighted to be freed that they almost forget to dance well.
 

 
Meanwhile, senior lawyers are on-hand to provide impressions of drunk uncles at weddings. Like this fellow, trying and failing to simultaneously rub his stomach and pat his head.
 

 
Several attorneys bop while carrying their meals, suggesting that they have to cram all non-billable activities into a single brief period. But despite having to eat, wish their daughter happy birthday on speakerphone and pee in a bottle all at the same time, they can still feel the beat.
 


And take ecstasy*.



The video also captures front desk staff giving their standard greeting to clients.



While one lawyer demonstrates his complete misunderstanding of the moonwalk.



While others cheerlead a colleague as he speeds towards an open window.



Some are so 'Happy' they cross into 'Hysteria', yet such is their professionalism they still manage to channel their excitement into a graceful ballet.



It is not all Timberlake, but staff this side of the Atlantic will have to go some distance to better the shufflin' maestro of the piece.



If you've come across evidence of Usher masquerading as a troupe of lawyers, send it in.

*not really not really not really.
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