McGuireWoods is set to hire a team of lawyers from Reed Smith’s Pittsburgh office led by partner Mary Hackett, a former head of Reed Smith’s financial services litigation group, Reed Smith has confirmed.

Hackett has spent her entire career at Reed Smith with the exception of a three-year stint from 1998 to 2001 as chief litigation counsel for PNC Financial Services Group. A year after rejoining Reed Smith, Hackett took over as head of the financial services litigation practice. She held that role until 2006.