Five partners from Drinker Biddle & Reath are leaving to take their national class action defense practice to Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.

Seamus Duffy, Michael McTigue, Meredith Slawe and Kathryn Deal will now be based in Texas-based Akin Gump’s Philadelphia office, while Michael Stortz will be based in San Francisco.