In what could be a first for the Magic Circle, Allen & Overy has just taken on a former Playboy model as one of its associates.  

The lawyer used to work for a Canadian firm. She recently left the firm, and was snapped up by A&O which, like many major firms, is finding Canada to be fertile recruiting ground at the moment.

What A&O didn't know was that prior to her legal career she had worked as a nude model, and had appeared in Playboy's 2002 "Girls of Canada" issue.

A spokesman for A&O told us that this had happened "many years before she joined the firm", and as far as A&O was concerned is "completely unconnected to her ability as a first class lawyer". He did not comment on whether there would be a 2006 "Girls of A&O" calendar.

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