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Significant departures: DWF loses four-partner team to Scottish firm MacRoberts

Tom Moore
Tom Moore · 18 February 2015 · 2 min read
Strategic recruitment Scotland DWF MacRoberts

MacRoberts has defied the depressed Scottish legal market by expanding to 49 partners, the highest in its history, after poaching four partners from DWF.

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