Marla Butler has left Robins Kaplan, the national litigation firm where she’d spent her 21-year legal career to date, to return to Atlanta. She joined Thompson Hine this week as a partner.

Butler started out at Robins Kaplan in Atlanta in 1997, then moved to New York in 2010 to help the firm build an office there. “Professionally, those five years in New York were among the best of my career—helping to build something new and instill the Robins Kaplan culture,” Butler said.