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Anonymous @ 2:41pm: As you'll see from the interview with Pieter de Waal, I specifically asked him if the ODA was deliberately seeking to appoint larger firms and he said yes, because they needed that depth of resource which a large firm can provide. Would a small "minority-owned" practice be able to send numbers of its associates on secondment for months on end? This ability was a key point in the selection procedure and has saved taxpayers money, because had secondments not been possible the ODA (and Locog, which took a lot of Freshfields secondees) would have had to hire more in-house lawyers and pay them. Niche law firms are generally excellent but sometimes you need the giants of this world, surely?

11-Jun-2012

4:16 pm