As the dust settles from the implosion of LeClairRyan, a growing number of its attorneys are finding new homes in many different markets, including recent hires in New Jersey.

Fox Rothschild, which has been active in hiring LeClair attorneys since before the dissolution, recently brought on board six more attorneys, four of them partners. Among them was corporate partner Christopher L. Pizzo in Morristown.

Earlier in August, partners Thomas C. Regan and Christopher U. Warren joined Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith's Newark office. Regan had been managing partner of LeClair's Newark office.

"I was looking for a firm with a dynamic but stable environment where my team could thrive," Regan said in an Aug. 14 statement, upon joining Lewis Brisbois. "We knew several former colleagues who had moved to Lewis Brisbois and they confirmed that this was a firm where we could see that happen."

For Fox and Lewis Brisbois, LeClairRyan's closure and the resulting lateral movement also has spurred plans to open in Virginia. Both picked up teams of lawyers from LeClairRyan in the weeks before and after the announcement of the firm's dissolution, and on Aug. 23, Lewis Brisbois announced it would be opening a new office in Roanoke, Virginia, with six more medical malpractice lawyers from the firm. The new Roanoke office is Lewis Brisbois' first in Virginia and its 51st nationwide. It is led by managing partner John T. Jessee, who joined alongside partners Paul C. Kuhnel, Charles L. Downs Jr., Eleanor Lasky and Martha "Mollie" W. Elder, and associate Sarah C. Jessee.

"We saw this as an incredible opportunity for our team to grow while working at a firm with a truly national platform," Jessee said in a statement. "Lewis Brisbois' reputation preceded itself, so when Steve [Lewis] first reached out to us, we knew it was the right move. We're looking forward to bringing our expertise to the firm, and the firm's talents to the Roanoke community."

Lewis Brisbois earlier announced that it had hired 11 former LeClairRyan products liability attorneys. Regan and Warren were among that group. Others members of the products group joined Lewis Brisbois' San Francisco and Los Angeles offices.

The new hires at Fox Rothschild are weighted toward the firm's Washington, D.C., office, where it is adding five litigators, including partners Robert P. Fletcher and Brian W. Stolarz. Also joining the firm , and labor and employment partner William E. Hammel in Dallas.

The firm intends to open a new office in Northern Virginia to host partner Mark Dombroff, one of two leaders of the earlier acquired aviation practice, but he is currently in Washington as well.

At least two other firms have provided homes to other LeClairRyan veterans recently.

Labor and employment attorneys Michael C. Harrington and Elizabeth M. Smith both joined management-side specialists FordHarrison in the firm's Hartford office, Harrington as partner and Smith as counsel. Commercial litigator Jennifer Gray, who specializes in defending banks against consumer finance class actions, joined Hinshaw & Culbertson in Los Angeles.