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Baker McKenzie global chairman Paul Rawlinson’s public decision to take a hiatus from the firm due to ”exhaustion” may have caught many of the firm’s lawyers by surprise, but there were no outward signs of alarm at a gathering of the firm’s global leadership in Washington, D.C., this week.