Adding to recent moves in Chicago and on the East Coast, King & Spalding has tacked on six partners to its employment and workforce practice, announcing additions this week from Seyfarth Shaw, Barnes & Thornburg and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.

The firm said Monday it has brought on three partners in Chicago, including the former co-chair of Seyfarth's biometric compliance group, and three partners in New York, all of whom will join King & Spalding's global human capital and compliance practice.

Darren Gardner, a partner at King & Spalding who heads the practice group, said in an interview Tuesday that the group was formed in September 2020, and coincides with "a global transformation of the modern workplace" that he thinks will result in companies handling workforce issues such as diversity and inclusion and safety and privacy, among others, more centrally and more comprehensively.