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}}The [[collective noun]] for a group of lawyers from that permanently yearning [[silver circle law firm]], [[Simmons & Simmons]]. After the [[collective noun]] for a large bunch of in-flight co-ordinating [[starling|starlings]]. | }}The [[collective noun]] for a group of lawyers from that permanently yearning [[silver circle law firm]], [[Simmons & Simmons]]. After the [[collective noun]] for a large bunch of in-flight co-ordinating [[starling|starlings]]. | ||
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The collective noun for a group of lawyers from that permanently yearning silver circle law firm, Simmons & Simmons. After the collective noun for a large bunch of in-flight co-ordinating starlings.
Though it conjures the image of a rather unimaginative hive mind of drone-like workers, blindly following each other about, without a plan, let alone any sense of a grander purpose or wider strategy— albeit doing so in a fashion yielding strangely beautiful, alien, but ultimately meaningless shapes — those in such a murmuration — each one we may call a “starling” — should not complain, seeing as the metaphor was their idea in the first place.