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    Lessons for the start of your career in law

    Ivy Wong • Thomson Reuters

    Posted a year ago

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    Take 60 seconds to learn from Ivy Wong about what she wishes she’d known when she was a private practice lawyer at a Magic Circle law firm. Hint: she spent a lot of time agonising over things that wasn’t fruitful!

    Ivy is now a Product Manager on the HighQ legal tech platform at Thomson Reuters. Before her career in tech, Ivy was an Associate at Allen & Overy in London.

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