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Talk of the town: Why Kirkland/Paul Weiss underlines the value of controlling the management message

Georgina Stanley
Georgina Stanley
georgina.stanley@legalease.co.uk
29 April 2024
The IssueComment

Clandestine conversations, a recruitment strategy on steroids, eye-watering salaries and internal politics galore, the Paul Weiss/Kirkland story has enough drama in it to keep the attention of even those outside the legal market.

For City partners, the interest in what’s going on has been off the scale.

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