It has been a vintage year for lawyers exploiting video technology in order to look like spanners.

A Weil associate took an early lead with a remarkable mini-movie celebrating his wedding day, which featured Bambo Obaro living a playa's life with a helicopter, a nightclub and a clip-on bowtie.

    Bad Boys 3: Bambo's Helishizzle

But then Norton Rose Fulbright dived in with a superb recruitment video, in which a young lad has an amazing dream about working at Norton Rose Fulbright. As magical as it was, it could not compete with Vinson & Elkins' dance epic. Nothing could. Expertly choreographed, it juxtaposed partners jigging spasmodically with associates trying to breakdance but looking like they'd been shot. No-one escaped looking less than disturbed.

 
Can I get a V,
    Can I get an E,
    Can I, er...
    Oh boy.

Adverts also proved fertile ground for lawyers, particularly those with hero complexes. A Swedish solicitor made a bid for stardom when she dressed as a kind of poundland Catwoman who could levitate contracts by shooting energy beans out of her hands. And a US attorney actually produced a very entertaining piece in which he solved a Rubiks cube, saved a woman from drowning, foiled a pickpocket and tossed a caber, all on his walk to the office.

Working with a slightly smaller budget, a university student dressed in a toga to successfully undermine the Quality Solicitors brand, while the antics of the TEXAS LAW HAWK had to be seen and heard to be believed.

    "It just...won't...break. And that's a wrap."

Standing be-mulleted head and nicotine-wreathed shoulders above the competition, however, was Slaughter and May circa 1981.


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Roll On Friday 19 December 14 08:19

[i][b]A Swedish solicitor made a bid for stardom when she dressed as a kind of poundland Catwoman who could levitate contracts by shooting energy beans out of her hands.[/i][/b]

And we put in the call in straight away to have her on the mainland europe panel because I have a weakness for girls who cosplay.... and also peril, cosplay peril...... yum

now, we just need to find actual clients who have an interest in pine furniture and pickled herrings