Nobody knows why he developed this quirk, or why none of his co-workers asked him ‘What the fuck are you playing at, the clients don’t want to see their lawyers hurling themselves into a window, halfway through a meeting like a fucking crow. It doesn’t scream “this firm’s definitely capable of arguing my sentence down to manslaughter”.’ But have the quirk he did, and when new people came to look around the office it became an ordinary sight to see the 38-year-old charging top speed at the 24th-floor window.