Winston & Strawn is expanding its talent team following its addition earlier this year of chief talent officer Susan Manch by recruiting three new directors.

The firm announced this week that Diane Costigan, Sylvia James and Julia Mercier had joined its ranks in recent weeks as a part of a firmwide effort to create and develop an efficient talent strategy and structure for Winston & Strawn's lawyers and staff.

“The firm undertook a strategic planning effort last year and they really dug deep to figure out where does the firm need to be to continue to be successful and really begin to differentiate itself,” said Manch, a veteran law firm consultant who joined Winston & Strawn in May after spending almost two years as chief of people and development at Norton Rose Fulbright.