The law firm of Palantir Kirkland LLP has established a dominant position in the legal market. There are no partners, there is no lockstep. Instead, they’ve successfully downloaded the consciousness of scores of partners, living and dead, into a cyber-skeletal organism with animatronic eyes that sits atop a throne in a vast columned hall deep in the bowels of Kirkland’s Manhattan office. Here, in Babylon, cowering associates kneel before their god emperor and make sacrifices to appease it. Its all-seeing eye scours the earth for any company that still offers an employee pension plan. It engineers coups to feed them into the buyout machine chicken processing plant. It knows everything that ever was and ever will be. The only other firm left, at number 2, is Morgan & Morgan.