Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has hired L. Kieran Kieckhefer, a nearly five-year partner at Shearman & Sterling, as a member of its intellectual property practice group in San Francisco.

Kieckhefer is “an accomplished first-chair trial lawyer whom clients regularly hire to handle their most important patent and trade secret cases, particularly in the tech industry,” Ernest Hsin, the co-chair of Gibson Dunn’s IP practice, said in a statement.