RE:Why a new lawyer on the payroll You know you should put all this in an email and send it to Paul. You're probably right Paul probably hasn't asked himself if Lafond can't handle this. He'd need to be a genius like you to think of this stuff.
Maybe it signals an expansion of the trial . There was a threat of going into clinical sites in Europe I'd begun to assume that was on hold, maybe it's to do with a bunch of new sites coming online in the near future for phase 1b. Phase 2 would constitute a huge expansion and probably would need some preparation. I'm not saying Ph2 is on the horizon but maybe they see it coming down the road and the groundwork starts soon.
I'd say they are prep'ing for success and success means scaling up. They might fail and need to undo all this but that is how it goes.
Trogarzon wrote: Another thing, the hiring of a legal cousel for M&A stuff... can't Lafond do that.... can't they hire outside lawyer when and if they get an opportunity. Why increase my overhead with a permanent lawyer.. everything they announce or do always has an odd feeling to it. I find it odd to hire a layer when we already have Lafond... Sometimes it feels like having Justin Trudeau or Bidden throwin money around with off the wokeness in the world.