In 2017, law firms looked to pick up large groups for moves that aided expansions and helped bolster specific practice areas, one of which was a new—timely—practice area: institutional responses to sexual and gender-based harassment and misconduct.

Our top 10 moves of 2017 includes name partners, large groups with a focus on life sciences corporate practices and labor and employment, as well as acquisitions of smaller firms. One pair formed their own catastrophic and whistleblower firm with an emphasis on technology and how to use it to their best advantage, while another pair—who left their firm in 2016—decided to return.