A lawyer with deep ties to Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads has rejoined the firm as a partner after nearly a decade away, making him the fifth partner to boomerang back to the firm in less than two years.

Commercial litigator Stephen Rhoads previously spent more than two decades at Montgomery McCracken, practicing there from 1986 to 2009, before making a move to a smaller firm, Gawthrop Greenwood, where he served as a member of the latter’s management committee.