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Comment: Winning hearts and minds (but mainly hearts) at Linklaters

Comment: Winning hearts and minds (but mainly hearts) at Linklaters
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6 October 2016
CommentLeadership

The best Freshfields corporate lawyer Silk Street ever produced is now leading Linklaters, with incoming senior partner Charlie Jacobs ushering in a very different style at the City giant to the technocratic revolution pushed through by previous regimes.

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