Michael Kimberly and Paul Hughes first met 13 years ago at the Yale Law School Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic. They were hired by Mayer Brown on the same day in 2009 and became partners at the firm in 2015.

Today, they are jumping together to join McDermott Will & Emery. It's a blow for Mayer Brown and a coup for McDermott as it grows a Supreme Court and appellate practice with two young up-and-comers.

McDermott invited the duo to join the firm and lead the practice in Washington, and Kimberly and Hughes wouldn't have wanted it any other way.