(Reuters) - Prominent employment litigator Gerald Maatman and a team of seven other attorneys from law firm Seyfarth Shaw have left for to rival Duane Morris, their new firm said Wednesday.
Maatman, who served as chair of Seyfarth's complex discrimination litigation/class action practice group, has joined Duane Morris in Chicago as a partner and chair of a new workplace class action group within the firm's employment practice, the 800-lawyer firm said.
The group hire comes a week after Philadelphia-founded Duane Morris said it would absorb labor and employment law firm Curley, Hurtgen & Johnsrud, whose 18 lawyers are located in Silicon Valley, New York and Philadelphia.
The team of Seyfarth lawyers also includes partners Jennifer Riley, who will serve as vice chair of the new group, and Michael DeMarino.
Seyfarth said in an emailed statement that the firm wishes Maatman and the team well. The firm also said its employment class action team "remains extremely robust."
One other lawyer joining with the team, special counsel Brandon Spurlock, most recently worked as a national manager at Thomson Reuters, the parent company of Reuters. A Thomson Reuters spokesperson didn't immediately respond to a request for comment on his departure.
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