Despite losing half a dozen partners, along with their high-profile clients, to Sheppard Mullin in late summer, Brown Rudnick says that its brand and reputation management group hasn't been handicapped by their departure.

Brown Rudnick brand and reputation group co-chair Benjamin Chew left in September, roughly a month after five partners in the same group—Camille Vasquez, Andrew Crawford, Jessica Meyers, Samuel Moniz and Leo Presiado—joined Sheppard Mullin.