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

Legal Business
Legal Business · 11 July 2017 · 3 min read
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Answer to law firms’ social ills is not another league table

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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