When Leslie and I were coming up in the practice of law, firms large, medium and small, tended to make associates equity partners if they were great lawyers and showed promise as productive shepherds of existing business.

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The bulk of jobs growth here will be in low to medium-skilled jobs, Sissons says, putting the technologies gleaned from high-skilled engineering into practice.

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