This year's series of The Apprentice stars an ex-Slaughter and May associate.

Felipe Alviar-Baquero was a solicitor at the Magic Circle firm for four years. He then spent three years at Latham & Watkins, before leaving to become a consultant for an energy insurance consultancy called INDECS. He also has a shiny suit.

Alviar-Baquero towers over his playset

Some readers have queried how Alviar-Baquero lasted so long at Slaughters when he appears to favour doing up both his jacket buttons. However the lawyer has several strings to his bow, including designing and founding a playground in Larkfield, looking like he's been pushed in a bath, carrying the Olympic torch through London and being "one of the top 100 Colombians elected by the Colombian government". Alviar-Baquero said the achievement was an honour "because I was with people like Shakira".

For an insurance man Alviar-Baquero seems quite a risk-taker. In the first episode of The Apprentice he agrees to put himself in the firing line by becoming the leader of 'Team Summit', refers to himself in the third person and tells ex-Tottenham Hotspurs chairman Sir Alan that he supports Arsenal. At least he didn't declare that he was a Glamorous Solicitor without obtaining the proper certification.

Alviar-Baquero says his biggest weakness is that, while he knows "the basics", he's "not the best with numbers". Which may explain why he swapped a huge salary from Lathams for the chance to get backstabbed on national television by a pack of failed estate agents and humiliated by a man who predicted the iPod would be "dead" by 2006.