Three Lovells lawyers have quit the firm to launch a New York office for Minneapolis-based firm Robins Kaplan Miller & Ciresi, reports The Am Law Daily.

The trio – partners David Leichtman (pictured) and Hillel Parness and of counsel Bryan Vogel, who will join Robins Kaplan as a partner – are based in New York and focus on intellectual property (IP) and the pursuit of claims on behalf of artists against corporations that appropriate the works of those artists.