Addleshaw Goddard - c19th US president
Allen & Overy - Parts of the female reproductive system
Ashurst - Leafy Sydney suburb
Baker Botts - Superhero's love interest
Baker McKenzie - Superhero's stripper mistress
BCLP - Company of Canadian lumberjacks
BDB Pitmans - Third rate English investment bank
Bevan Brittan - Nationalistic 1950s politician
Bircham Dyson Bell - Shared workspace start-up aimed at industrial engineers
Bird & Bird - Ornithologists' compendium
BLM - Political and social sandwich
Bristows - Gravy manufacturer
Burges Salmon - Privileged fish
Capsticks - Victorian parlour game
Carey Olsen - Lesser known younger brother of Hollywood acting sisters
Charles Russell Speechlys - c19th navel captain
Clarke Willmott - 1990's Australian fast bowler
Clifford Chance - Media magnate
Clyde & Co - Scottish football 'firm'
CMS - Debilitative disease
DAC Beachcroft - Property surveyors
Debevoise & Plimpton - Upmarket umbrella merchants
Dechert - What comes after the main course
Dentons - Auto repair
DLA Piper - Regimental musician
DWF - Online forum for lovers of Casio watches
Eversheds Sutherland - Northern garden furniture wholesaler
Farrers - Posh upholstery merchant
Fieldfisher - Detectorist
Freshfields - Vegetable wholesaler
Gowling WLG - English cricketer
Herbert Smith Freehills - Apache child adopted by English family
HFW - Preachy celebrity chef
Hill Dickinson - South London auctioneers
Hogan Lovells - Male porn star
Ince - 1990's midfield enforcer
Irwin Mitchell - Used car salesmen
Jones Day - Estate agents
K&L Gates - Budget landscaper
Kennedys - Well known Australian family
Kirkland & Ellis - A couple of cvnts
KWM - Pirate radio station
Latham & Watkins - Fictional detective duo
Linklaters - Defence technology company
Macfarlanes - Tobacco company
Mishcon De Reya - South American freedom fighter
Morrison Foerster - Frontiersman
Norton Rose Fulbright - Given names of celebrity couple's son
Ogier - Major of French town
Osborne Clarke - Sommelier at Michelin-starred Melbourne restaurant
Penningtons Manches - Midsomer village, next to Badger's Drift
Pinsent Masons - Churchbuilding cabal
Plexus - Wrestling move
PWC - Abacus monkeys
Radcliffes Le Brasseur - French restaurant at Dubai hotel run by third rate English chef
Reed Smith - Superhero alias
RPC - Authoritarian dictatorship
Sackers - Badger cullers
Shakespeare Martineau - Highbrow literary agents
Sherman & Sterling - Film production company
Shoosmiths - Cobblers
Sidley Austin - American actress
Simmons & Simmons - Business partners to Ebenezer Scrooge
Skadden Arps - Austrian Ski resort
Slater and Gordon - Old school police deputies
Slaughter & May - Sex shop
Squire Patton Boggs - Eligible bachelor in c19th Philadelphia
Stephenson Harwood - Goven shipyard
Taylor Wessing - Gunsmith
TLT - Online entertainment news channel
Travers Smith - Construction equipment manufacturer
Trowers & Hamlins - Shitty east end London borough
Walker Morris - Cartographers
Watson, Farley & Williams - Motown trio
Weil - A face-covering
White & Case - Wine merchants
Winston & Strawn - Political lobbyists
Withers - PA to Fortune 500 CEO
Womble Bond Dickinson - Childrens' TV show / spy franchise crossover
Heh. Freshfields is a supermarket already I think!
https://www.supermarketnews.com/archive/whole-foods-market-acquire-fres…
Very good.
National Accident Helpline - Kraftwerk album
Sydney Mitchell - 1940s trade union leader
Lee Crowder - asbo recipient
Winns - number 37 in John Peel’s Festive Fifty in 1989
Drinker Biddle - bitter PE teacher whose football career was ended by injury at age 21.
Wright Hassall - total waste of time
Stewarts - catering company
Mills & Reeve - publishers specialising in political autobiographies
Gateley Wareing - runner-up in Dorset in Bloom 2019
Weightmans - protein powder
Penningtons Manches - mediaeval term for the right of the Lord of the manor to take the first born of every goat
Browne Jacobson - illegal in southern states
Blake Morgan - the third Persuader
Forsters - larger
Lewis Silkin - the token twot in The Apprentice
Heh - these are great. Mishcons and MoFo especially.
this is good, but, dude, you've done most already...
Quinn Emmannuel - Catholic festival for very tall strikers...
Freeths - Australian fishing bailiffs of scots origin
Fieldfisher - Detectorist
heh
Wasn't really expecting people to have a go, to be honest. I needed a brain break from staring at SPAs all day and took the list from the inside info section.
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz - we sort your timepiece, give you a cup of tea, sort some flowers for the wife and look after your feline pets; think of us as the ultimate concierge
Sullivan & Cromwell - tv studio producing crap soap opera with a side order of sectarian violence
Moon Beever - sex shop
Dickinson Dees - defunct geordie snooker emporium
Obers, you have hit Rof copper - if you can get Mutters out, you may get Rof Gold...
Winkworth Sherwood - mid-tier Nottingham Estate Agent...
Love these. And admire the OP's impressive work ethic.
Some alternatives:
Clifford Chance - bookmakers
Linklaters - should be golf club bar or 19th hole but makes me think old school dating agency
Slaughter and May - pest controllers
Worth a heh tbf.
Bump these are funny
solid effort oh
a nod to the value of being workshy
Womble Bond Dickinson - children's espionage adventures going underground and overground, in search of cash in the attic.
Sorry, it's been a while.
Carter Ruck - someone else do it, I don't want to get sued for libel
Radcliffes Le Brasseur - French restaurant at Dubai hotel run by third rate English chef.
That made me feel a bit queasy.
Wragge & Co - Britfunk outfit who had a brief spell of success in 1981
Edge Ellison - character in a John Ford Western
Coward Chance - antagonist to Edge Ellison
Clifford Turner - scored the winner in the FA Cup Final in 1958
Kenneth Turner Brown - commentator on the Boat Race for the Third Programme in the 1930s
McKennas - the north's second-largest haulage company
Theodore Goddard - vice-president to Rutherford B Hayes
Bird & Bird - dating service for women who like women
Ince - dating service for men who like women but whom women do not like
Heh, the Simmons one is clever.
Ogier is the name of a notorious Channel Islands villain. Clifford is an entirely fictitious name made up by Ray Turner to make them sound more respectable.
Thanks for giving this thread a birthday outing. Same time next year?
Davis Polk - A condition involving restricted movement of the knee joint following over-exuberant dancing by middle-aged men
Carter Ruck - token yank in university 1st XV
Burges Salmon - fee paid for the right to an enfeoffment under the Demesne Abatement Act 1451
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner - prog rock band’s new name after losing the rights to their original
Mourant Du Feu - prog rock band’s original name
SJ Berwin - Shop that sells City workers shirts with a pricing structure that makes anything other than 5 shirts at a time uneconomical. Then presumably makes a fat margin on ties and cufflinks.
Brilliant. Like Baker Botts and Gowling. Ince is Gaga's firm!
SJ Berwin - amateur jockey
Coffin Mew Clover - 19C funeral directors
Shadbolt - DIY warehouse
Rawlison Butler - cigar sommelier
Carey Olsen is a blonde coed-bracket porn star, 100%
Hengeler Muller - German small arms manufacturer
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