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

Alex Novarese
Alex Novarese · 7 September 2016 · 3 min read
Comment Legal Business 100 Ashurst

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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