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Under the Weather

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Legal Business
2 November 2011

When US outfit Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe entered the London market in 1998, chairman Ralph Baxter had a dream of competing on the global stage.

But 13 years on, that dream looks to be souring. LB investigates what is going wrong.

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