Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein is absorbing most of a Washington, D.C.-based firm to open a new office in the city, establishing its first full-service outpost outside the Southeastern U.S.

Parker Poe, a 200-lawyer firm headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, said in a press release Thursday that it’s joining forces with Leftwich, a minority and women-owned firm in Washington. Leftwich is shuttering its doors as a law firm, and five of its attorneys are moving to Parker Poe’s new D.C. office: Thomas Bridenbaugh, Nicholas Penn, Sherry Bellamy, Scott Burrell and Roderic Woodson.