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The agency’s high quality, I don’t view this because the agency being jilted or left on the altar or something like that.
— Jon Truster, a associate at recruiting agency Macrae, in feedback given to the American Lawyer, regarding the place Alston & Fowl’s headspace is within the wake of its failed merger talks with Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft. Cadwalader as a substitute decided to combine with Hogan Lovells, for what’s believed to be the biggest legislation agency merger in historical past. Truster identified that Alston had grown its New York headcount to about 200 legal professionals, and mentioned that “the proper giant group of legal professionals could be very interesting to Alston and every other agency in New York of that measurement.”
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