
By far the largest group of hires of the latest batch this week has been made by listed LB100 firm Keystone Law, showing the attractiveness of the alternative law firm model to recruits from conventional practices in the current climate.
Keystone has added another 14 new partners – 11 of which were lateral hires – including Stuart Carter, an energy partner from Fieldfisher; IP specialist Fiona Nicholson from Bristows; Edwin Coe employment partner Alexandra Carn; Fletcher Day property litigators Chris Hill and Greg Barnbrook; real estate partners James Daglish and John Downing from Goodman Derrick; litigation specialists Elaine Chan and Robert Kenyon from Ward Hadaway and PDT Solicitors respectively; and corporate partners Anna McGill, who joins from Gordon Brown Law, and Oliver Mellman, who was managing director of Provenance Legal.