Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads of Philadelphia has snapped up three New Jersey lawyers for a new branch outside Atlantic City and has its eye on starting offices in New Jersey cities Newark and Princeton as well.

The firm announced May 13 that Gerald Corcoran, Enid Hyberg and John Aleli, recently of Youngblood, Corcoran, Lafferty & Hyberg in Linwood, N.J., started on May 1 at Montgomery McCracken’s office in Cherry Hill, N.J. They will be based in Linwood.