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Ditching lockstep – better too late than never?

Alex Novarese
Alex Novarese · 11 December 2017 · 3 min read
The News Leader Comment Salaries Freshfields
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

‘Lockstep in its current form has to go. It’s just not working.’
Legal Business, June 2015

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