Lore, who joined Bingham in 2006 as part of the firm’s merger with Washington, D.C.–based Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman, told The Am Law Daily by phone Friday that he will become head of Katten’s East Coast real estate practice.

Joining Lore at Katten as of Monday are partners GLENN MILLER, JEFFREY SCHARFF and MARTIN SIROKA and a total of five counsel and associates. Lore and Siroka will be based in New York, while Miller and Scharff will work out of Washington, D.C. News of the group’s departure was first reported late Thursday by The Wall Street Journal.