When commenting on their law firms, managing partners rarely reach for the poetry shelf, preferring instead to deploy meaningless management speak.

So hats off to the managing partner of troubled Washington DC firm Arent Fox, who, when quizzed about the firm’s finances, quoted from TS Eliot’s ‘Four Quartets’: “Last season’s fruit is eaten and the fullfed beast shall kick the empty pail”.

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