Despite its alternate legal structure in California, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney is insisting that its lawsuit against three of its former lawyers in the Golden State should be litigated in Pennsylvania.

Buchanan Ingersoll filed a response to the lawyers’ motion to dismiss last week in the Western District of Pennsylvania, disputing Keith Solar, Robert Parks and Robert Edmunds’ claims that the firm filed the complaint in anticipation of their own litigation, in an attempt to bring the dispute to a more favorable forum. The lawyers had argued that they worked for Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney LLP, the firm’s partnership designation in California.