The co-chair of litigation at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, Matthew Powers, is leaving the firm after 18 years to start his own plaintiffs shop, according to The Recorder, an affiliate of the NY Lawyer.

News of the split, which Mr. Powers and Weil Gotshal described as friendly, came the same day as the announcement that two other Weil Gotshal patent litigators, Nicholas Groombridge, a New York–based co-chair of Weil’s patent litigation group, and David Ball, who is based in Washington, D.C., were departing for Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.

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