Big Law firms connected to the Washington, D.C., legal market made a flurry of key hires in the last week. Those with lateral news include Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel; Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer; Nixon Peabody; Cole Schotz; Holland & Knight, McGuireWoods; and Clark Hill.

Recent hires joined practices such as congressional investigations, private equity, project finance, financial services, litigation and government contracts groups.