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FT snubs Slaughters: firm relegated to silver circle

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03 July 2012 16:02

It must be a bitter blow for the good denizens of Slaughter and May who have awoken today to find they are no longer working at a Magic Circle firm. The enigmatic firm appears to have been downgraded by the Financial Times. In a piece about Allen & Overy's financial results, the FT's correspondent concludes:



Ouch.

    A Slaughters lawyer reacts to news of the firm's relegation

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anonymous user
04/07/2012 11:49
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Heh. They're just saying what everyone else is thinking...
anonymous user
04/07/2012 14:45
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Slaughter & May is to the magic circle what a great local deli is to Tesco or Wal-Mart. You might think they are admirable in many ways but they just don't really matter that much. Especially as London gets less important to magic circle profits.
anonymous user
04/07/2012 15:36
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Exactly. FT has correctly defined them as having firms with a large international footprint. S&M is just an upmarket version of Travers Smith.
anonymous user
04/07/2012 17:55
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Not necessarily a bad thing. S&M, Travers and the like should be in their own category of firms which get on with doing a good job and turning a decent profit (rather than comparing c**k sizes)!
anonymous user
06/07/2012 13:38
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^^^ This would be a pithy comment, if it wasn't for the fact that S&M clearly also compare c*ck sizes by labelling themselves MC, and Travers spends a good deal of time talking about how they've been around as long as Linkies.
anonymous user
08/07/2012 02:28
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Blithely ignoring the effective retraction by the FT the next day, where they explained they just weren't including SandM for these purposes due to the different geographical footprint... but noting they were the most profitable firm in London...