News reaches us that another famous name in the history of the dotcom boom (ah, how far away those days seem now) has bitten the dust.

Queercompany.com, the online marketing alliance of gay-owned and gay-targeted businesses, is in liquidation, and David Wright, head of Osborne Clarke‘s London corporate recovery and banking litigation unit, is running the show for Ernst & Young.

What makes Tulkinghorn think that the deal reveals a sense of humour previously unknown at Osborne Clarke?

Well, for a start, the trainee charged with tracking down information for a conflict search goes by the name of William Gay.