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Latham & Watkins: Strategic Hiring
Latham & Watkins added John McGaraghan as a leading data & technology transactions partner in Bay Area
Source: PR Newswire
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 98.6 (Neutral), down 1.4 month-on-month — shows EMEA signal flow steady (-1.1pts).
Latham & Watkins: 2 signals in the last 90 days — above 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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