CORRECTION, 9/24/14, 5:37 a.m. EDT: An earlier version of this story incorrectly referred to a leadership change at Duane Morris. It is Drinker Biddle & Reath that will install a new chairman. The story has been revised accordingly. We regret the error.

Bingham McCutchen might be closing in on a merger with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, but Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld is still hanging around to pick up some of the former’s overseas partners.