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11 June 2010
Issue: 7421 / Categories: Movers & Shakers
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Andrew Hodge & Patrick Brodie Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP

Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP (RPC) has announced that Andrew Hodge and Patrick Brodie have joined as partners from Wragge & Co to help drive the strategic advisory side of the firm’s employment practice.

They will join RPC’s employment, pensions & incentives group focused on contentious and non contentious employment, pensions and employee share schemes work.

Jonathan Watmough, managing partner, says: “In Andrew and Patrick we have secured not only experts and thought leaders from a leading employment stable but also committed business developers with the profile and energy to help propel the team to even greater heights.”

Issue: 7421 / Categories: Movers & Shakers
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

NLJ Career Profile: Nikki Bowker, Devonshires

NLJ Career Profile: Nikki Bowker, Devonshires

Nikki Bowker, head of litigation and dispute resolution at Devonshires, on career resilience, diversity in law and channelling Elle Woods when the pressure is on

Ellisons—Sarah Osborne

Ellisons—Sarah Osborne

Leasehold enfranchisement specialist joins residential property team

DWF—Chris Air

DWF—Chris Air

Firm strengthens commercial team in Manchester with partner appointment

NEWS
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An engagement ring may symbolise romance, but the courts remain decidedly practical about who keeps it after a split, writes Mark Pawlowski, barrister and professor emeritus of property law at the University of Greenwich, in this week's NLJ

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has become ‘a very different organisation’ under its new enforcement leadership, writes James Tyler, of counsel at Peters & Peters LLP, in the latest issue of NLJ
Contract damages are usually assessed at the date of breach—but not always. Writing in NLJ this week, Ian Gascoigne, knowledge lawyer at LexisNexis, examines the growing body of cases where courts have allowed later events to reshape compensation
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