On the face of it, the news that mighty City law firm Slaughter and May has scrapped its policy of allowing staff to bring dogs into the office hardly looks earth-shattering. It was, however, reported in the Financial Times, which must say something. Along with the latest company deals, the political fallout from the Peter Mandelson scandal and wars in Iran and Ukraine, a bunch of solicitors deciding they no longer wished to see man’s best friend padding around their desks was deemed worthy of inclusion.
This was, however, Slaughter and May, which is always fascinating. For no legal, professional services outfit is more pukka, more conservative in the way it conducts itself. Not today.
