The glam new star of Cherie’s law firm? Mrs James Blunt!

GEORGE Clooney’s barrister wife Amal attracts such publicity for her legal firm’s clients that she was even invited to meet David Cameron at 10 Downing Street this weekend.

But Amal has a legal rival with just as much glamour and celebrity power and, what’s more, she’s working for Cherie Blair.

I can disclose that Sofia Wellesley, wife of You’re Beautiful singer James Blunt (both pictured) and granddaughter of the 8th Duke of Wellington, has been appointed to the board of Cherie’s legal consultancy, Omnia Strategy.

Documents filed earlier this month at Companies’ House give the blonde, Edinburgh University law graduate’s name as Alexandrina Sofia Blount.

She does not use Alexandrina, and Blount is the real, and more aristocratic, spelling of her former Cavalry officer husband’s surname.

‘Sofia is a top lawyer and could give Amal a run for her money,’ comments one legal source. ‘Cherie is lucky to have her.’

The documents state that 32year-old Sofia has been appointed as a designated member of Omnia, which is a limited liability partnership offering expertise in training judges and human rights lawyers. It was founded by Tony Blair’s wife in 2011 and was the source of controversy recently when it was disclosed that it had been paid nearly half a million pounds for legal advice by the government of Albania.

The award of the contract to Cherie’s company was contentious because of Tony’s role as an adviser to Albania’s socialist prime minister Edi Rama since September 2013. Sofia formerly had a role in ‘business development’ for Omnia Strategy. Before that, she worked for the Libyan Investment Fund, which was set up in 2006 to manage the country’s growing oil revenue surplus under the nowdeposed tyrant Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

Albania is not the only eye-catching country to have engaged the services of Omnia Strategy. It was reportedly paid almost £400,000 for six months’ work in Kazakhstan for reviewing its ‘bilateral investment treaties’.

Tony Blair was branded ‘disgraceful’ by Human Rights Watch for earning a reported £7million fee for giving advice to Kazakhstan’s autocratic president Nursultan Nazarbayev, including how to spin the massacre of unarmed civilians by his regime.