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Special Issue CEE January 2017 Legal Matters In-Depth Analysis of the News and Newsmakers That Shape Europe’s Emerging Legal Markets What do you expect from your law firm? wolftheiss.com EDITORIAL YEAR END SPECIAL IssUE CEE EDITORIAL: OUT WITH THE Legal Matters In-Depth Analysis of the News and Newsmakers That Shape Europe's Emerging Legal Markets BAD, IN WITH THE GOOD Few would con- tria, the trend is undeniably rightward. test that 2016 was, Against this gloomy backdrop, optimism might on balance, a dis- seem to be in short supply. And yet, at least in appointing year. the legal industry, it’s perhaps not completely un- Indeed, by now warranted. descriptions of the year just concluded First, as the participants in this year’s Expert as unfortunate, or Summit (page 12) attest, business in CEE contin- terrible, or an an- ues to grow. Partners at law firms in some of the nus horribilis are most troubled CEE countries, such as Ukraine, so common as to Russia, and Turkey, remain positive, and firms approach cliché. Still, the year is unlikely to be in many other CEE countries, such as Austria, remembered fondly, in CEE or anywhere else. Hungary, and Romania, report increased growth, profits, and enthusiasm. Those reports are borne And indeed, recalling the stories from this part out by our annual Table of Deals ( page 32) as of the world that generated global media cover- well, which is much larger than it was in 2015 – age in 2016 is a painful exercise. In Turkey alone, which itself, in turn, was much larger than it was a woeful series of terrorist attacks killed an esti- The Editors: in 2014.
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