Magic Circle (law firms)
…A&O Shearman), Clifford Chance, Freshfields, Herbert Smith (now Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer), Linklaters, Lovells (now Hogan Lovells Cadwalader), Norton Rose (now Norton Rose Fulbright), Slaughter and May, and Stephenson Harwood. The members of the Club of Nine had an informal "no-poaching" agreement and the…