Like every business sector, the legal sector has been going through a shakeout in recent years, particularly as corporate executives have come to realize that bigger firms are not better, they are just bigger, and so corporations are increasingly sending work to smaller firms that work more efficiently and often at substantially reduced rates.

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But it has also arguably left large parts of the European small business sector under-capitalized and impeded the development of a healthy market for corporate control, holding back economies such as Italy in an age when scale matters.

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