February could be the new January.

Lateral movement wasn’t very robust in the first month of 2011 as it often has been in prior years, but activity has increased this month. February started off with word that Dilworth Paxson executive committee member Wayne Streibich was leading a seven-lawyer team of consumer financial services lawyers to Blank Rome to head up a new industry group there. The group consisted of both regulatory and business attorneys as well as litigators.