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Latham buys its own AI servers in BigLaw first
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Exclusive data: Trainee numbers fall by 2% across 100 Legal Cheek Most List firms
Linklaters is the biggest faller, shedding 40 TCs after ramping up its solicitor apprenticeship programme, but US firms are supporting the market as they continue to hire more trainees in London
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