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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.
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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 111 (Hot) (up 5.2 month-on-month), EMEA is at easing (-4.4pts) on signal share.
DLA Piper: 3 signals in the last 90 days — above the Legal median of 1 across 3 tracked companies; 0.2% of MitchelLake's EMEA signal flow; 3 tracked across 36 days.
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