Quinn Emanuel has made its scheme allowing associates to work for a week anywhere in the world permanent.

John Quinn launched a trial of the programme earlier this year in an email which began,"its january and its dreary". As well as dropping his capital letters and apostrophes to remind everyone he is a founding partner, Quinn offered associates $2k each to work for a week wherever they desired: "maybe you will throw down a power strip in a beach cafe in india. maybe a hostel in a village in the mountains of columbia. freak street in kathmandu?"

Not if you're there, John

Around 60 associates took Quinn up on his offer, despite having to work "just as if you were in manhattan, paris or wherever, even if u are wearing a bathing suit," and under the threat of a partner joining them depending on "how cool the places are that you pick". As a result Quinn declared the scheme a success and has rolled it out permanently. So presumably the firm's costly redaction error wasn't down to the majesty of Angkor Wat distracting an associate.

However not all solicitors will be eligible to draft on a desert island (or, if a partner's sniffing around, "Hull"). Quinn's invitation is only open to associates "in good standing" and who billed at least 2,000 hours last year. And who still have enough social skills to persuade six to ten colleagues to go with them.

In January Quinn confessed, "we haven’t really come up with a cool name for it yet–maybe 'qe work away week'?" But wisely he decided to drop the Emanuel reference (it was his idea after all) and has settled on The Quinn Global Experience, not to be mistaken for a world-spanning tour with the man himself.