{"id":143147,"date":"2026-02-01T14:59:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/02\/01\/5-firms-5-stories-how-the-old-lsquomagic-circle-is-faring-in-the-age-of-the-global-elite\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T14:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:59:59","slug":"5-firms-5-stories-how-the-old-lsquomagic-circle-is-faring-in-the-age-of-the-global-elite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/02\/01\/5-firms-5-stories-how-the-old-lsquomagic-circle-is-faring-in-the-age-of-the-global-elite\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Firms, 5 Stories: How the Old ‘Magic Circle’ is Faring in the Age of the Global Elite"},"content":{"rendered":"

The five firms have diverged from the commonalities that put them in the elite club in the first place, but the levels of narrative control diverge greatly, writes the Global Lawyer.<\/p>\n

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The five firms have diverged from the commonalities that put them in the elite club in the first place, but the levels of narrative control diverge greatly, writes the Global Lawyer.<\/p>\n

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The five firms have diverged from the commonalities that put them in the elite club in the first place, but the levels of narrative control diverge greatly, writes the Global Lawyer. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The five firms have diverged from the commonalities that put them in the elite club in the first place, but the levels of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":143148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/legal-news-4GqKYP.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}