There was no shortage of notable lateral moves in 2013 and, as usual, there were too many to put them all on the shortlist.

But, unlike last year, this year’s group of runners-up ranges beyond just the traditional move from one firm to another, including an attorney who left private practice to go in-house, an attorney who left a firm he founded to start a new shop and one lawyer who returned to the firm he once led after spending time in state government.

Debra S. Dunne