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WHSmith Moves Into Legal Services

The retailer has teamed up with QualitySolicitors to offer a legal advice service in hundreds of its shops. The scheme will launch in the summer, ahead of October’s Legal Service Act which will enable non-legal organisations such as banks and supermarkets to offer legal services.

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