Firm of the Year final round up: biscuits, loos and parties
15 January 2010
Wragge & Co has maintained its position at the top of the biscuit board with a score of 93% - but there are ominous warnings that the firm is "cutting back on cake in internal meetings". However, for the moment at least, while the firm may have made a stack of redundancies over the last year, it can still afford a first rate pastry chef. Here's a picture of the winning snacks:


And RollOnFriday can confirm that they taste as good as they look, courtesy of Wragges' PR department which was kind enough to send over enough confectionery to choke a horse.

Lovells and Olswang narrowly missed out on biscuit victory with scores of 92% and 91% respectively. However LG was bottom of the biscuit barrel by a country mile, with a score of just 20%. It seems that is largely because a strict biscuit policy ensures that lawyers only receive biscuit relief in client meetings: "Part of the cost cutting exercise involves no biscuits for internal meetings. NB the shed-loads spent on rebranding us a couple of years ago into a Korean electronics firm could have paid for future biscuit supplies".

Meanwhile, the hotly-contested lavatory competition confirmed that not only are Norton Rose staff the happiest in the City, but they get to crap in the poshest bogs. With a resounding toilet score of 91% the firm managed to knock Clifford Chance into second place. Staff at Trowers & Hamlins voted the loos in their firm's elderly offices the worst in the city.
 

Norton Rose's toilets, yesterday

And it seems that Hammonds pulls off the best parties. So good in fact that no one at the firm would talk about them, so here is a RollOnFriday simulation of how they probably look:

How a Hammonds party might look, yesterday

Predictably, Eversheds has the worst parties - but then the firm has bugger all to smile about.