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U.S. law firm FisherBroyles is growing its newly-established London office as it looks to establish a "full-service" offering in the city.

The firm, which opened in London with three partners in February, has made four more hires to boost the base. It has also appointed two of its current U.S. lawyers to focus on its burgeoning London offering.

Its new recruits include the former London managing partner of U.S. firm Strange & Butler Ben Lasserson and DLA Piper U.S. intellectual property partner Richard Flaggert.

Litigation partner Lasserson was previously head of competition litigation at Pinsent Masons, while Flaggert had been a partner at DLA Piper for nearly a decade.

FisherBroyles has also hired Davis Polk associate Thomas Wiesner, who had been based in Madrid, to its London office as a partner, and is also bringing on board a partner from U.S. firm Seyfarth Shaw, Daniel Larkin, who will be based between the firm's Chicago and London offices.

The firm has also appointed existing U.S.-based partners Stephen Di Cioccio and Andrew Webster to focus on London-related work.

Michael Pierson, corporate managing partner at FisherBroyles, said the firm could see its London office grow to 20 partners in the future. The firm currently employs roughly 250 lawyers across its network, and maintains only small offices globally since all lawyers work remotely. In February, the firm said that the reason for opening its own London office was to avoid unnecessarily referring client work to other firms.

The firm's co-founder Kevin Broyles said in a statement: "Thrust into remote working, many law firms are struggling to adjust to the 'new normal'. For FisherBroyles, remote working has been at the core of our model since inception."

He highlighted the fact that the firm has zero debt and has "never had the expense of prime real estate or overhead associated with traditional law firms" as being attractive reasons for lawyers to join the firm in the current economic environment.

Pierson added that the firm was still eyeing new locations to open in, including Milan, Singapore and Dubai.

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