Reading, Pennsylvania-based Stevens & Lee, in a renewed push to bolster its New Jersey ranks, has added a three-attorney administrative law and government contracts group to its Princeton office from Hill Wallack, including the head of that firm’s practice.

Stevens & Lee announced Sept. 2 that it has brought aboard shareholders Patrick Kennedy and Maeve Cannon, along with of counsel (and Patrick Kennedy’s son) Ryan Kennedy. The trio is now part of Stevens & Lee’s state and local government practice. The team, whose practice centers primarily on representing private clients in their business dealings with state and local governments, was previously based in Hill Wallack’s Princeton office. Patrick Kennedy served as the partner-in-charge of that firm’s administrative law and government contracts practice group.