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All change—why clients switch lawyers

All change—why clients switch lawyers
Published on: 23 August 2016
Published by: LexisPSL
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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? or take a trial to read the full analysis.

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