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Coronavirus impact widens as Links and Eversheds become latest City firms to send staff home

Linklaters
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Marco Cillario
17 March 2020
Magic CircleCoronavirus

Linklaters has followed its City rivals in asking staff to work from home due to the quickening spread of COVID-19. 

The firm today (17 March) moved to a full remote working arrangement for its 1,200-lawyer Silk Street headquarters. 

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