For Crowell & Moring, 2017 has been a year of national expansion on both coasts, primarily through a bevy of lateral partner hires.

The firm, which in April broke off merger talks with New York’s Herrick, Feinstein, officially shuttered offices in Alaska and Wyoming in January. But those moves preceded Crowell & Moring’s recruitment frenzy, which touched on California this summer when the firm added a pair of litigators from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe in Los Angeles.