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Comment: Looking forward to Ashurst’s decline – The outlook worsens for a proud City institution

Comment: Looking forward to Ashurst’s decline – The outlook worsens for a proud City institution
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Alex Novarese
7 September 2016
CommentLegal Business 100

You cannot change the past. Move forward. Be constructive. Focus on making things better. Pick your cliché. And, like most clichés, they are built on the basis of common sense… and can still sometimes be beside the point.

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