Hello and welcome to the Fides Weekly Update. Take a look at this week’s key trends, moves and developments in the UK legal sector.
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This week:
1). Movers & Shakers
Panel Watch
UK Government Unveils Multimillion-Pound Legal Panel for Post-Brexit Trade
National Grid to Cut Legal Panel
Seven firms in the spotlight for SSE panel review
Appointments
Slaughters ‘Best Friend’ Firm De Brauw Appoints New Managing Partner
Moves
Taylor Wessing Rehires Pinsents Middle East Head
Taylor Wessing has reclaimed its former Dubai office head Osama Hassan from Pinsent Masons, seven years after he left the firm
Fieldfisher loses third life sciences partner in four months
IP and life sciences partner Beatriz San Martin makes the move to Arnold & Porter
Arnold & Porter Hires Former EU Medicines Agency Adviser
Arnold & Porter has hired a former legal adviser to the European Medicines Agency Alexander Roussanov as a partner in the firm’s life sciences and healthcare regulatory practice
Quinn Emanuel Swoops for Latest London Partner Recruit
Hogan Lovells litigation partner Julianne Hughes-Jennett has left the firm to join Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan in London
Office Openings & Closings
Andersen Global Enters Five New European Markets, Plots Five More
Inclusion & Diversity
Freshfields to Establish ‘Conduct Committee’, Partners Could Face 20% Pay Penalty for Bad Behaviour
Ex-DLA Piper Partner Blasts Assault Claims As Second Woman Comes Forward
Slaughters Introduces Mental Health and Wellbeing App
Other
ULaw dumps BPTC for new “more flexible” bar training course that’s nearly £6,000 cheaper