When Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart recently set up shop in Portland, Maine, the national labor and employment shop doubled the population of Am Law 100 firms in the city.

Ogletree joins Littler Mendelson, a rival labor law giant that sounded the moose call with its own move to Maine in early 2015, in establishing offices in Portland. Both outposts focus on servicing clients with labor and employment issues.