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UNIT FIVE TEXT ONE Boosted by booming international financial markets, the City of London has not had it so good since the end of the dotcom bonanza in the late 1990s. Basking in double-digit growth rates, Londons law firms have both contributed to that success and benefited from it. The earnings of top City lawyers can now exceed ￡2m a year. Having opted to expand and go global ahead of most others, Britains leading law firms tend to be bigger than their American rivals. Indeed, according to a survey of the worlds top 50 law firms, compiled by Legal Business, a British trade paper, five of t