Before the Magic Circle, the elite UK legal landscape was a whole lot shadier. Back then, what moniker was used to describe Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Herbert Smith, Linklaters, Lovells, Norton Rose, Slaughter and May, and Stephenson Harwood?
Hint: The name wasn’t the only suspicious thing either. The firms had an agreement not to poach from each other.
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