UPDATE: 10/1/13, 12:30 p.m. EDT. Kelley Drye has hired IP litigation partner David Long in Washington, D.C., where he chaired the patent practice at Dow Lohnes after joining the firm in 2011 from the dissolving Howrey.

Dow Lohnes, a former Am Law 200 firm with offices in Atlanta and Washington, D.C., has lost nearly half its lawyers over the past three years amid a spate of lateral defections.