Taylor Wessing has been on an intellectual property hiring spree in Germany. Martin Köhler, a patent litigator, joins the firm’s Düsseldorf office from Clifford Chance Pünder and Kai Westerwelle, and IT specialists joins the Frankfurt office from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. The Munich office has also hired partner Christian Lederer from local full-service firm Arcon and an associate, Thomas Gneilinski, from Görg.
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Hell hath no fury like fee-earners and support staff scorned. Tulkinghorn was interested in an email sent round SJ Berwin‘s London partnership about its latest cost-saving measure: axing free parking for partners. It suggested that partners themselves should pay the £2,500 annual fee.The suggestion was met with a sour response from one partner. “What about […]