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Answer to law firms’ social ills is not another league table

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Legal Business
11 July 2017
CommentGender diversitySocial diversity

Have we reached peak aspirational employer league table yet? From the perspective of the legal industry we certainly should have, given the trend in recent years for the profession to turn up with improbably high rankings in a proliferating range of ‘best employers for…’ tables.

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