Littler Mendelson announced Monday that it has hired an 11-lawyer labor and employment litigation group from Locke Lord. The group is spread out over the employment giant’s offices in Boston; Providence, Rhode Island; and Newark, New Jersey.

The lawyers leaving for Littler include partners Todd Reed, Gary Lie­berman and Siobhan Sweeney. Reed was a partner in Locke Lord’s Providence office, while Lieberman and Siobhan had been counsel in their former firm’s Boston office.