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Real estate – In The House Legal Business In the first of a series of looks at the UK’s top in-house lawyers, LB profiles a few GCs…
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Austria part 1 – staying out of trouble Legal Business Austria has proven to be an economic safe haven in the past few years, but the troublesome CEE countries are…