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Mind the gap: financial results reveal magic circle split

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One can argue about the significanceof the numbers all day (even though they are plain to see), but to those of us that work across the table from these firms it has always been clear that work-product from CC in particular, but also A&O, is of much lower quality than that which exits the doors at Fleet Street and Silk Street. To anyone working in the profession, there is a clear order (for quality of work): (1) Freshfields, (2) Linklaters, (3) A&O and (distant 4) Clifford Chance. This of course ignores the other quality UK and US firms in London. Many of the US firms would be number 1 in all sorts of lists, and clearly S&M would be number 1 in certain areas of corporate practice.

Posted date

13-Jul-2010

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9:57 am

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