Daily Diary

Banks for nothing

Posted 18/04/2008 by The Daily Diary

The field of legal punditry grows ever more crowded as hacks vie with consultants to pick over the strategic bones of the new generation of super firms. Take City legend Slaughter and May, which in recent years has had to put up with the indignity of oiks banging on about how its international best-mates strategy can’t match up to the McFirms of this world.

But now the firm has to put up with moaning from a new constituency, as famed street artist Banksy has been at work just around the corner from Slaughters’ Bunhill Row command bunker. Banksy’s street-corner legend proclaims that ‘London isn’t working’ in a clear critique of Slaughters’ City-centric approach.

Obviously, while the identity of Banksy is an even more closely guarded secret than Slaughters’ PEP, your correspondent can’t be entirely sure that this is a genuine work from the sloganeering satirist. In the meantime, The Diary will be watching out for any Clifford Chance partners lurking around Moorgate with an aerosol and an impish impression.