After turning away many Big Law suitors, the partners at trial and litigation defense firm Brown Eassa & McLeod are joining Sedgwick.

The Oakland, Calif.-based civil defense firm’s eight partners will move into Sedgwick’s offices on March 1, bringing a practice that centers on complex mass tort and product liability cases with them. Sedgwick is still determining how many of Brown Eassa’s 11 associates will stay on board, a firm spokesman said. Brown Eassa will dissolve later this year.