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Legal 500 Data: The data behind the story

Legal Business
Legal Business · 29 October 2018 · 3 min read
ABS DWF
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DWF Legal 500 rankings, 2017

DWF announced in June it was considering what would become the largest UK law firm initial public offering (IPO) yet. For further coverage of this, see ‘No free lunch’.

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