Murmuration

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.

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Though it implies a rather unimaginative hive mind — albeit one making strangely beautiful, alien, but ultimately meaningless metamorphoses — those in such a murmuration — each one we may call a “starling” —should not complain, seeing as it was their idea in the first place.

See also

• Starling
• Collective noun
• Simmons & Simmons