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Freshfields LLP has hired two energy and infrastructure lawyers from rival Paul Hastings LLP as the talent war in the legal industry intensifies.

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At least three government lawyers working on defending a major Biden-era drug pricing law were laid off in mass cuts across the agency this month, according to a source familiar with the terminations.

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