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Northern Irish alliance scrapped by A&L Goodbody

23 Jan 2002News

A five-year cross border alliance with Northern Irish firm Elliot Duffy Garret has been officially ended by Irish firm, A&L Goodbody.

Northern Irish alliance scrapped by
A&L Goodbody

A five-year cross border alliance with Northern Irish firm Elliot Duffy Garret has been officially ended by Irish firm A&L Goodbody. Goodbody's has been targeting Northern Irish work on its own account for some time and will rely on its in-house Dublin-based Northern Irish law team in the future.

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