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Strategic Hiringcurated sourcedetected 2026-04-01 · confidence 100%

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Latham & Watkins: Strategic Hiring

Latham & Watkins added John McGaraghan as a leading data & technology transactions partner in Bay Area

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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: The wider read — a Talent Market Index of 111.1 (Hot), up 5.2 month-on-month — shows EMEA signal flow easing (-4.4pts).

Latham & Watkins: 1 signal in the last 90 days — in line with the Legal median of 1 across 3 tracked companies; 0.1% of MitchelLake's Americas signal flow; 2 tracked across 47 days.

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