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DLA Piper: Strategic Hiring
DLA Piper appointed Jennifer McCarthy as Senior Consultant in Corporate Insurance practice in Ireland, focusing on insurance regulatory and transaction matters.
Source: Pulse2 — funding news
The leadership read
A hiring build-out like this points to deepening legal executive bench strength over the coming quarters.
Market context: Against a Talent Market Index of 113.4 (Hot) (up 13.7 month-on-month), EMEA is at steady (-1.5pts) on signal share.
DLA Piper: 2 signals in the last 90 days — in line with the Legal median of 2 across 3 tracked companies; 0.1% of MitchelLake's EMEA signal flow; 2 tracked across 33 days.
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