Morgan Lewis Boosts Labor & Employment Team in London
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10/06/2008
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LONDON, October 6, 2008: Morgan Lewis today announced the appointment of Christopher Hitchins as a partner in its Labour & Employment Practice in the firm’s London office. He joins the firm from the London office of Latham & Watkins.
The firm has further strengthened its London employment team with the appointment of Ashley Brown as an associate. Ashley joins the firm from DLA Piper.
Christopher Hitchins will join the London team of Morgan Lewis’s award-winning Labour & Employment Practice, one of the largest in the United States. The London team represents an exclusively corporate client base with an emphasis in the financial services, technology, and life sciences sectors. The team performs the full range of employment work, including litigation, the employment issues in corporate transactions and outsourcing, restructuring, and multijurisdictional projects, as well as providing significant advice on data privacy issues.
Christopher’s practice covers all aspects of employment work, including the implications of cross-border M&A transactions, outsourcing, employee incentives, redundancy procedures, and pensions. As such, Christopher’s skills and experience are ideally suited to the Morgan Lewis London team.
Christopher is joined at Morgan Lewis by associate Ashley Brown, who will assist Christopher and the rest of the London team advising the firm’s UK and international clients.
Commenting on the new hires, Morgan Lewis’s London office managing partner Bob Goldspink said: “I am delighted that Christopher and Ashley decided to join us. Their appointments are part of the successful expansion of our Labour & Employment Practice in London to add strength and depth on both sides of the Atlantic and to better serve our clients in the UK and Europe.”
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