Wake Up Call: KPMG Law Plans to Double Headcount by 2024 in U.K.

In today’s column, Quinn is offering “hot lunches” to get its London lawyers back into the office; U.S. law firm leasing slowed in the first quarter; President Biden will appoint a Mastercard top lawyer to his intelligence advisory board.

• Leading off, the U.K. legal services unit of Big Four accounting firm KPMG plans to add 220 attorneys, doubling in size by 2024. The new hires will include 45 partners and directors and see the unit’s total number of practicing attorneys climb to over 400. The expansion is part of KPMG UK’s 300 million pound ($373 million) growth strategy, the firm ...