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 }}{{dpn|/ˈmæʤɪk ˈsɜːkl lɔː fɜːm/<br>(Also (''chiefly Seppo'') “[[white-shoe law firm|white-shoe ~]]” ; “[[big law]]”)|n|}}
-An excellent issuer of [[legal opinion]]s, and one of the few international enterprises whose business model was wholly unaffected by the global financial crisis. Magic-circle [[charge-out rates]] have been steadily rising since 1985, to the point where it is now more expensive to hire a [[trainee solicitor]] for an hour than to fly to Monaco for a weekend at the ''Grand Prix''.
+An excellent issuer of [[legal opinion]]s, and one of the few international enterprises whose business model was wholly unaffected by the global financial crisis.
+===-Magic circle and the occult===
+As the reference to [[Magick]] suggests — there is something of the occult in these organisations:
+*Nocturnal: Magic circle lawyers are basically vampiric and, by day, repose in crates of salted earth in crypts beneath their offices. This can lead to disappointment, particularly among the sunshine-loving trading folk, who naively expect a draft promised “today” to arrive during the hours of daylight, and not to the accompaniment of moonlit dire-wolves at four o’clock the following morning. It also follows it is literally impossible to work private practice lawyers to death, because they are already undead. They just keep going.
+Magic-circle [[charge-out rates]] have been steadily rising since 1985, to the point where it is now more expensive to hire a [[trainee solicitor]] for an hour than to fly to Monaco for a weekend at the ''Grand Prix''.
 The best way of doing that, therefore, is to arrange for a [[magic circle law firm]] to invite you to the motor racing as part of its client entertainment programme.