A day after Hogan Lovells and Squire Patton Boggs started the third quarter with mergers abroad, Venable has gotten into the tie-up game by picking up seven lawyers from Los Angeles litigation boutique Weingarten Brown.

Founding partner ALEX WEINGARTEN, a former Manatt, Phelps & Phillips associate who branched out on his own a decade ago, is joining Venable as a litigation partner in Los Angeles along with six associates from his former firm.