DLA Piper and Dechert have quietly settled their fierce feud over the latter’s 2011 hire of former DLA litigation cohead Neil Gerrard, The Am Law Daily has learned.

While DLA, Dechert, and Gerrard all declined to comment or did not respond when contacted about the status of the row, a source close to the situation says the parties settled both a U.K. arbitration and a U.S. litigation related to the dispute in December. It is unclear whether the settlement’s terms call for any money to change hands.

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