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Slaughters makes surprise pensions play with first ever London lateral hire

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Legal Business
17 February 2017
Strategic recruitment

Slaughter and May announced today (17 February) that it has hired Herbert Smith Freehills‘ head of pensions Dan Schaffer, in the second ever lateral hire in the firm’s history.

Schaffer will join Slaughters’ pensions and employment group which currently comprises four partners and over 25 lawyers.

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