When Reuters, the world’s most venerable newswire, agreed to merge with Canadian media giant Thomson in May, the move raised concerns from journalists fearful for their jobs and unions worried that the company’s celebrated impartiality would be compromised.

Since then Reuters’ chief executive, Tom Glocer, has made reassurances that the majority of the deal’s projected $500 million(�245 million) savings would be found in ‘non-people’ areas such as property, but little has yet been said about how the merger will affect the legal teams at either of the companies.

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