Original article by Chris Merritt
The Australian – Page: 27-28 : 18-Jul-14

Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Beaton Research + Consulting have issued their latest survey of business confidence among the leading commercial law firms. It covers the second quarter of calendar 2014, and 31 firms with total revenue of $A3.6bn per annum. Among the findings are that the net ratio of firms seeing conditions as negative has fallen to 23% from 28%, but that among top-tier providers the drop has been from 50% to just 14%. Out of 15 practice areas looked at by the research, an improvement is forecast for 13

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