Our eternal respect and admiration goes to the anonymous Roffer who today sent us his/her epic compilation of legal lookalikes, compiled over years of scanning law firm websites for celebrity doppelgangers. It's provided RoF Towers with much amusement on a Tuesday afternoon. And for that we salute you.

Feast your eyes on this lot, an edited selection of the very best:

Helen Marshall,             Pauline Quirke, Birds of a Feather
Partner,       
Bingham McCutchen

Steve Wiltshire,  Partner,  Shoosmiths          Alan Shearer, football pundit

Peter Atkinson, Partner, Gorden Dadds             John Inman, Are You Being Served

Andrew Smith,          Nigel Havers, charmer
Partner, 
Child & Child

Kevin Gold, Partner,                       Tom Jones, Sex Bomb
Mishcon de Reya    

Ellen Temperton, Partner, Lewis Silkin                         Miranda Hart, Miranda
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Pee-Wee Herman



William R. Poynter, Williams Mullen (Norfolk, Virginia)

Tip for Bill: it's widely-recognised that the only people who could possibly get away with a dickie bow are circus clowns, attendees at The Lawyer awards or world-renowned consultants.
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Darren Hornsby, Stephen Lickrish & Associates, Manchester




Billy, terrifying thing on a tricycle, Saw II



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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.
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Francis O. Scarpulla, Zelle Hofmann Voelbel & Mason




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