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All change—why clients switch lawyers

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Published on: 23 August 2016
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  • Why do clients decide to change lawyers?
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Article summary

Practice Compliance analysis: Lawyers are understandably perturbed as to why a client should abandon them and instruct another firm. Unless the reason is apparent (incompetence, relationship breakdown, conflict of interest, and the like) why do clients change law firms and lawyers?

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