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27 January 2020CopyrightSarah Morgan

Discrimination fears stop disabled lawyers changing jobs, survey reveals

More than half of the solicitors and paralegals believe their career and promotion prospects are inferior to those of non-disabled colleagues, according to research published late last week.

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