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Cooke: ‘Conveyor belt is not a phrase you will ever hear uttered at Slaughter and May’

Cooke: ‘Conveyor belt is not a phrase you will ever hear uttered at Slaughter and May’
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4 February 2016
Corporate and M&ALeadership

Corporate veteran vows to maintain City focus when he succeeds Saul in May

The new senior partner at Slaughter and May, Stephen Cooke, has pledged to retain the firm’s City focus when he takes up his five-year term at the helm of the UK’s most profitable law firm in May.

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