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*'''Undead''': For the same reason it is literally impossible to work private practice lawyers to death, because they are already undead. As long as you like your work late and impenetrable, they will carry on dancing as long as you are prepared to keep paying for the children of the night to make their music. | *'''Undead''': For the same reason it is literally impossible to work private practice lawyers to death, because they are already undead. As long as you like your work late and impenetrable, they will carry on dancing as long as you are prepared to keep paying for the children of the night to make their music. | ||
*'''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). | *'''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 | *'''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 by a specially trained [[chief operating officer|exorcist]] to cast out these malign influences over a possessed [[general counsel]] have foundered. | ||
===Gravity-defying [[charge-out rate]]s=== | ===Gravity-defying [[charge-out rate]]s=== | ||