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‘A watershed moment’: Q&A with Cooley’s CEO on the firm’s London launch and philosophical decisions

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Legal Business
12 January 2015
Law firm managementQ&A

Joe Conroy, chief executive of tech focused Californian firm Cooley, talks to Tom Moore on why it was harder to open in London than China and how the collapse of Edwards Wildman‘s city office created a ‘significant opportunity’ that led to a 55-lawyer launch.

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