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Freshfields patent litigation duo exit for WilmerHale

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Legal Business
31 May 2017
Strategic recruitment

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr is set to pick up Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer patent litigation partner Justin Watts.  

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