A host of law firms hired lateral partners this past week with D.C. practices, including Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe; Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer; Crowell & Moring; McCarter & English; and Miles & Stockbridge.

Orrick brought on first-chair tech and life sciences IP litigator Timothy Carroll from Venable as a partner in its IP litigation practice based in Chicago. He will also spend time in Washington, D.C., the firm said.