If ONE is working in Paris it’s important to distinguish oneself on matters of style. And for two of the Paris legal market’s leading lights, this extends to more than just dress sense.

If ever you’re in a bar and hear the Sex and the City theme tune, you can be sure that Linklaters‘ highly respected French managing partner Thierry Vassogne is not far away. Then there is private equity star Thomas Forschbach, lately of Ashurst and now of Latham & Watkins, whose phone awakens to the croaking of a frog.

Forschbach claims the ringtone is no allusion to French stereotypes, but was secretly foisted on him by his son. The frog who turned into a prince?