UPDATED: A Rough Day for K&L Gates: Separate Groups in Chicago and D.C. Jump to Rivals

By Blake Edwards and Gabe Friedman, Big Law Business

K&L Gates faced a fresh round of departures on Friday, as two major law firms announced they’d lured a total of nine partners from the firm, including two members of its management committee.

Morgan Lewis announced it snagged four of K&L Gates’s IP partners in Chicago, including its global co-practice leader; meanwhile, Mayer Brown enticed five partners from its financial services regulatory and enforcement group in Washington, D.C. office.

K&L Gates had started 2016 with a series of hires, adding partners in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Shanghai, Singapore, Brussels and London across a ...