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With Change Comes Challenge: Law Firm Mergers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 December 2011

Jon Beaumont  and
Helen Marshall
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Abstract

In January 2011, Harvey Ingram and Borneos merged their businesses creating a full service law firm with over 400 staff and approximately 200 fee-earners. The new organisation is based in five sites over the Midlands and the Home Counties. In this article the Information Officer, Helen Marshall, and the Head of Knowledge Management, Jon Beaumont, examine the practical elements of such a merger from the point of view of the Knowledge and Information Team.

Keywords

mergerslaw firmsmulti-site law firmslaw firm librarians
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Legal Information Management , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , December 2011 , pp. 289 - 293
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2011. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians

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