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As the reference to [[Magick]] suggests — there is something of the occult in these organisations: | 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. | *'''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. | ||
*'''Soul selling''': There is something Faustian about the bargains one strikes with magic circle law firms. Young clerks sell their souls in return for knowledge, power and unlimited wealth (though the trade is reversed from that proposed by Goethe: here it is soul and damnation first, wealth and power later). | |||
*'''Spiritual possession''': Whole [[investment bank]] [[legal department]]s have been known to fall under the mendacious swoon of a single firm. In some cases even repeated efforts of a [[chief operating officer]] to exorcise evil legal spirits from a possessed [[general counsel]] have foundered. | |||
===Gravity-defying [[charge-out rate]]s=== | |||
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''. | 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''. | ||