Dickinson Dees LLP was a law firm of the

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that traded between 1975 and 2013. At its peak in 2005 the firm had 763 solicitors (including partners). By 2010 the firm had reduced this number to 327 solicitors through restructuring. In 2012, the firm came last in a national survey of

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The firm had offices in Stockton on Tees,

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and

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at the point it negotiated joining,

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based Bond Pearce. The successor firm was called Bond Dickinson and was headquartered in Bristol and then London. In November 2017, Bond Dickinson successfully negotiated joining an American law firm. The new firm is called

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