Here’s one way to get your name on the letterhead at an elite law firm: Earn half a billion dollars from a single client.

This spring, high-powered Washington, D.C., litigation firm Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel quietly changed its name. The 65-lawyer boutique is now Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick, removing Mark Evans and Peter Huber from its name partner roster and replacing them with litigator David Frederick.