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Defining value

David Burgess, publishing director of The Legal 500, considers what really matters when selecting a law firm, as well as previewing some major initiatives ahead in 2018.

Legal Business
Legal Business · · 3 min read
Defining value

Style v substance

Premium mediocre

For those well-read followers of Twitter among you, the phrase ‘premium mediocre’ will be a familiar concept. I stumbled across it last year when reading David Walsh’s always stimulating column in The Sunday Times. The phrase was coined by blogger Venkatesh Rao, and I’ll let him explain it:

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