Epstein Becker Green has brought aboard a 12-partner team focused on health care and labor and employment disputes from the midsize firm Bricker & Eckler, making for a new office in Columbus, Ohio.

The New York and Washington, D.C.-founded Epstein Becker Green, which already boasts a focus in health care and life sciences, as well as labor and employment, cited the region’s “strong and diversified economy” and called Ohio the “fastest growing” market in the Midwest.