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DOSE OF MEDICINE – Big Law has an outsized part to play in the development of the COVID-19 vaccine, Patrick Smith and Dan Packel report. In the race to create coronavirus vaccines, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer and Hogan Lovells are two of the firms guiding companies through regulatory and contractual obstacle courses. An attorney from Arnold & Porter says that its relationships within the life sciences and healthcare industries might be one reason the firm won the business of pharma companies such as AstraZeneca, which has attracted $1.2 billion in federal grants to team up with Oxford University on a vaccine.
