Holland & Knight, which last week hiked first-year associate starting salaries in its home region of South Florida, continued a recent lateral hiring spree by snapping up three more partners from other firms.

MARK CHURCHILL, head of the Washington, D.C.-based trial practice group at McDermott Will & Emery, is poised to leave the firm for Holland & Knight’s outpost inside the Beltway. Holland & Knight also brought on Hogan Lovells counsel SETH BELZLEY, a Tulsa native and oil and gas industry expert, as an energy and regulatory partner in Denver and Houston.