Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham has hired five new partners, including two senior lawyers from the US Government’s 9/11 Commission, as the firm reinforces its white-collar litigation team.

The group is headed by John Farmer, former attorney general and Governor of New Jersey, who was senior counsel to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, the independent body created by Congress to produce an account of the September 11 attacks and draft policy guidelines.