Staff in Vinson & Elkins' London office would be well advised to start practising dance moves after their US colleagues threw down the gauntlet with a stunning music video.
V&E vacation scheme students uploaded their effort, which they called 'Tartfeasors', to Youtube after roping in principals to dance along to Pharrell's ubiquitous summer hit 'Happy'.
After a man in a boater grooves across the lobby and down V&E's stairwell, a parade of delighted students stream out of, what else, rolling storage.
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Some seem so delighted to be freed that they almost forget to dance well.
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Meanwhile, senior lawyers are on-hand to provide impressions of drunk uncles at weddings. Like this fellow, trying and failing to simultaneously rub his stomach and pat his head.
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Several attorneys bop while carrying their meals, suggesting that they have to cram all non-billable activities into a single brief period. But despite having to eat, wish their daughter happy birthday on speakerphone and pee in a bottle all at the same time, they can still feel the beat.
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And take ecstasy*.
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The video also captures front desk staff giving their standard greeting to clients.
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While one lawyer demonstrates his complete misunderstanding of the moonwalk.
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While others cheerlead a colleague as he speeds towards an open window.
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Some are so 'Happy' they cross into 'Hysteria', yet such is their professionalism they still manage to channel their excitement into a graceful ballet.
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It is not all Timberlake, but staff this side of the Atlantic will have to go some distance to better the shufflin' maestro of the piece.
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If you've come across evidence of Usher masquerading as a troupe of lawyers, send it in.
*not really not really not really.
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