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Comment: A vision of Big Law come 2025 – will the dust ever settle?

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Legal Business · 7 June 2015 · 3 min read
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It is 2025 and the view from the nominal head office of the leading City law firm remains as uncertain as it has for the last 15 years. Not that there hasn’t been progress at what would once have been called a Magic Circle firm.

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