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Comment: The limits of culture – WLG needs more than common ground to fulfil its ambitions

Comment: The limits of culture – WLG needs more than common ground to fulfil its ambitions
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Legal Business
15 December 2015
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Let’s get this out of the way up front. The least expected new entrant to the Global 100, Gowling WLG, is going to have to work very hard to avoid being the classic 2 + 2 = 4 union when its tie-up goes live in January.

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