K&L Gates has hired Belynda Reck as a partner for its environment, land and natural resources practice in Los Angeles.

Reck was most recently a partner at Reed Smith, a firm she joined nearly three years ago from what was then Hunton & Williams. At the latter, which earlier this year became Hunton Andrews Kurth, Reck helped the firm set up shop in Los Angeles in late 2006 after it absorbed the bulk of splintering boutique O’Donnell & Mortimer.