Miles & Stockbridge announced it has signed a lease on a new office in Washington, D.C., as the firm’s leadership said it hopes to roughly double its total lawyer head count in the nation’s capital.

“We think we’ve got a pretty good business case for laterals in D.C., and we were frankly out of space where we were,” said Joe Hovermill, Miles & Stockbridge president and CEO. “So it was either stay stagnant or be optimistic, and based on the conversations we’ve been having, we’re pretty optimistic.”