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New appointments - March 2007
1/03/2007

On 1 March 2007 the firm promoted two people within the firm, Madeleen Roussouw as Partner and Juli Hopf as Associate.

Madeleen Roussouw completed her BA LLB at the Rand Afrikaans University 1991 and then qualified as a Trade Mark practitioner in 1999. She then was admitted as an attorney in 1997. She specialises in conducting trade mark searches, filing of new trade mark applications and reporting on official actions. Madeleen has 12 years experience.

Juli Hopf completed her BA LLB (2001) at Unisa and was admitted as an attorney in 2003. She specialises in trade mark filings, searches and prosecutions, trade mark portfolio management, trade mark assignments, registered users and maintenance. Juli has 9 years experience.
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The firm practises directly in several Southern African countries and through long-established associates in others.