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Credit: fizkes/Shutterstock.comMany expect 2021 to be the year when the legal industry starts to recover from pandemic disruption and lawyers and staff return to the office. But I expect it to be the year when law firms cease to have any defining characteristics.
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Paul Hodkinson is the Editor-In-Chief of Law.com International and Legal Week. Before joining the company in late 2018, he was the Deputy Editor and Comment Editor of Financial News, part of Dow Jones. He has also held roles as Acting Editor of Financial News and Editor of Private Equity News and has written for The Wall Street Journal as well as numerous private equity publications in the U.S. It is his second stint at Legal Week, after he worked at the publication between 2002 and 2008.
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