This week The Diary was interested to hear that lawyers form the professional group most likely to succumb to unhealthy snacks, according to new groundbreaking research.

The study – which goes some way to confirming the suspicion that the legal profession is taking consolidation to a whole new level – reveals that lawyers will take every opportunity to snack on the go – including in the gym (yes, really), and that nearly 80% of lawyers have gone a whole day without eating a single meal (presumably before gorging on a takeaway pizza banquet at the end of a 72-hour deal marathon).