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Career Clinic: Should I turn down a magic circle job to pursue my tech law ambitions?

Should I leave the firm I'm at and try to qualify into this area at a different firm, or would this be a bad idea? Should I just stick with what I have? Maybe try to move in a few years?
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Bird & Bird Paris partner duo exit to join Salans

Two senior Bird & Bird partners have left the firm's Paris office to join Salans in the French capital. Intellectual property (IP) partner Isabelle Leroux and tax partner Anne Quenedey joined Salans on 1 September, bringing with them three associates each as well as one counsel.
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Taylor Wessing adds City IP partner with Field Fisher hire

Taylor Wessing has added a partner to its City trademarks, copyright and media team with the hire of Field Fisher Waterhouse's France Delord. Delord, who has been a partner in Field Fisher's trademark and brand protection group since 2008, joined the firm's London office in 2003 from Norton Rose.
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Hogan Lovells Shanghai IP partner exits to join Ropes & Gray

Ropes & Gray has strengthened its new Shanghai office with the hire of intellectual property (IP) partner Geoffrey Lin from Hogan Lovells. Lin, Hogan Lovells' sole IP partner in Shanghai, was made up in the firm's promotions round last year. He has acted for clients across the pharma, biotech, healthcare, electronics and telecoms sectors, including Genentech, Becton, Dickinson and Company and Apple.
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Google legal chief hits out at rivals over 'bogus' patent claims

Google's chief legal officer David Drummond has hit out at Apple, Microsoft and Oracle for pursuing "bogus" patent claims, reports Corporate Counsel. In an Google blog post entitled 'When patents attack Android', Drummond writes that the success of Android, Google's smartphone operating system, has prompted rivals Microsoft and Apple "to get into bed together" to purchase smartphone patents and has inspired a "hostile, organised campaign against Android by Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and other companies, waged through bogus patents."
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Supreme Court Star Wars battle sees key copyright ruling handed down

The Supreme Court has delivered a mixed ruling in the battle between George Lucas's movie empire and a UK prop designer over the sale of the iconic Stormtrooper helmets from the Star Wars films. The Court held that while Lucasfilm can enforce a US copyright in the UK, the Stormtrooper helmets sold were functional, rather than works of art, and therefore the defendant did not breach copyright laws.
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Edwards Angell adds partner in London with Bird & Bird hire

Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge has added a partner to its London intellectual property (IP) department with the hire of Richard Graham from Bird & Bird. Graham, who joined the US firm's information technology and outsourcing function within its IP practice today (25 July), has been a lawyer in Bird & Bird's commercial group since 2004.
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Olswang launches in Munich at request of key client Microsoft

Olswang has launched an office in Munich at the request of technology giant Microsoft. The office, which opened earlier this week (4 July), will focus on intellectual property (IP) work including patent filing, prosecution and enforcement for a range of clients as well as Microsoft.
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Disruption as usual - Google's legal staff takes law where it hasn't gone before

Win or lose, Google's staff is taking the law and legal departments where they haven't gone before. David Hechler reports
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Mayer Brown seals hire of Nabarro IP partner for London base

Mayer Brown has added a partner to its London intellectual property (IP) team with the hire of Jonathan Radcliffe from Nabarro. Radcliffe, who will join the US firm on 1 August, has expertise in patent and IP litigation, having acted on disputes in the pharmaceutical, life sciences and high-tech sectors. He joined Nabarro in 2005 from rival UK top 30 law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse.
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