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RBS: some recovery in sight but weak demand and 5,000 surplus solicitors still define turbulent legal market

RBS: some recovery in sight but weak demand and 5,000 surplus solicitors still define turbulent legal market
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Alex Novarese
27 March 2014
Law firm managementFinancial management

Disaggregated, wrestling with tight margins, reliant on defensive mergers and probably still with more than 5,000 un-needed solicitors in England and Wales – the good news is that there actually is some good news in a new report on the profession from the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).

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