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Law firms seek flexible work strategies to retain key staff

By Michael Peel

Published: June 5 2006 03:00 | Last updated: June 5 2006 03:00

Tony Angel, managing partner at Linklaters, warns it is "one-dimensional" for law firms to think healthy pay increases are sufficient to stop junior staff seeing jobs elsewhere as less stressful or more rewarding.

He says Linklaters offers its busy lawyers emergency childcare, time off in lieu and even a concierge to go to their houses to "collect the washing machine or meet the plumber".

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