Former U.S. Rep. Daniel Lungren, R-Calif., has joined King & Spalding as the firm continues its growth on the West Coast.

Lungren has taken a senior counsel role in King & Spalding’s government matters group and will split his time between the firm’s offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., while continuing to run government relations and strategic advisory firm Lungren Lopina, which he co-founded with former Patton Boggs of counsel Brian Lopina.