Benchmarking report: TMT sector focus

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Status: Published on 01-Dec-2008

In a tough economic climate all general counsel are grappling with how to keep on top of increasingly complex regulatory and legislative developments against a background of tight cost constraints. For those working in the TMT sector these pressures are acute. Here William Long reports on how PLC Law Department's TMT benchmarking group is responding to the growing pressures to do more with less.

William Long, PLC Law Department

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Resource ID: 9-384-0655
Published: 01-Dec-2008
Products: IP&IT, PLC Business Development, PLC UK Commercial, PLC UK Law Department, PLC UK Media

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