Many of you will, no doubt, have watched ITV's highly successful historical drama Downton Abbey.

What many of you may not have done, however, is turn it's bucolic setting and lush characterisation into an excuse to sell legal services.

Sadly, the PR bods at recently-established Berkeley Law of Mayfair didn't get the memo. Read it and weep (or pehaps retain a Downton-esque stiff upper lip at all times).

Downton Abbey - a very modern period drama

Fans of the popular ITV period drama, Downton Abbey, have to wait until series two in 2011 to find out how the aristocratic Crawley family will resolve a divisive question of inheritance. Set just prior to the First World War, the family's lives in Downton Abbey are unravelling as the heirs to the Earldom and the Downton Estate have perished along with Leonardo DiCaprio in the waters of the North Atlantic. Yet the issues raised within the programme are not restricted to period dramas; they are still faced by some of this country's wealthiest landowners.

Fortunately, as Alex Ruffel and Charlie Sosna at Berkeley Law, a law firm specialising in wealth advice explain, there are solutions available.

Fortunate indeed. There's tonnes more of this stuff, amazingly. But it was all so arse-clenchingly awful we couldn't bring ourselves to publish it.