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A grinding year for the Global 100 as US leaders assert dominance

Legal Business
Legal Business · 11 July 2017 · 3 min read
Global 100 Magic Circle US firms
A grinding year for the Global 100 as US leaders assert dominance

Casting an eye over the results for the world’s 100 largest law firms, 2016/17 has been the definition of grinding out a result. Not a pretty result at that.

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