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Freshfields, HSF and Skadden heavyweights among 113 new QCs in latest record round

Freshfields, HSF and Skadden heavyweights among 113 new QCs in latest record round
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Legal Business
12 January 2017
The BarLitigation

Senior disputes partners from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF), King & Spalding and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom have taken silk in the latest round of QC appointments, where 113 were selected out of a round of 254 candidates.

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