What is left if you cannot even trust your legal adviser any longer? Discretion, clarity and doing (we prefer to say ‘living up to’) what you agree in the utmost professional manner represent prerequisites for performance which are cast in stone, as far as we are concerned. Yet trust is also what we bestow on our colleagues, in what they are capable of, in the good inherent in people, in the belief that there is nothing that cannot be solved, however insurmountable a problem may seem to be.