(Reuters) - Amid a flurry of fresh lateral moves among labor and employment lawyers, one of the leading L&E firms is facing a lawsuit tied to hires it made several years ago from an industry group that counts many of its clients as members.

Law firms have been grabbing labor and employment lawyers at a fast clip the past several weeks, with hires at Blank Rome, Ogletree Deakins, Dentons and Kaufman, Dolowich & Voluck.

The lateral movement comes at a testy time for top labor and employment firm Littler Mendelson. The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), in a complaint filed earlier this month, accused former Washington, D.C.-based Littler shareholder Lance Gibbons of using the firm's computers to access and download materials from CWC's members-only website and using that material to bill clients. The lawsuit accuses Gibbons and Littler principal Chris Gokturk of misappropriating CWC materials and lists 10 other unidentified employees who supposedly participated in the alleged activity.

Defense counsel has yet to make an appearance in the case, which is pending in the Eastern District of Virginia. Littler, in a statement last week, said the firm had "no knowledge at the time of the alleged actions."

"As soon as we were made aware of the situation, we initiated an investigation and took immediate action based on our findings," the firm said, declining to comment further.

Here are some of the most notable recent partner moves since the last Career Tracker:

Alston & Bird has added two new corporate partners to its London office, bringing on Phillip Taylor from Sidley Austin and Saloni Joshi from asset management consultancy MJ Hudson. The firm also added former Georgia Supreme Court Justice Keith Blackwell as senior counsel in its litigation and trial practice group in Atlanta.

William Anthony, former co-chair at Jackson Lewis, has joined Blank Rome's New York office as a partner in the labor and employment and class action defense groups.

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck brought on former TD Ameritrade chief privacy officer David Hale to head a privacy practice at the law and lobbying firm. He joins Brownstein as a shareholder in its intellectual property department in D.C.

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner announced that Paul Hoffman has joined the firm from Vedder Price as a partner in its banking practice group in Chicago. BCLP also brought on litigator Lori Van Auken as a partner in New York from Winston & Strawn.

Dentons recruited Rodney Moore as a partner in its employment and labor group in Atlanta. Moore joins from Ogletree Deakins.

Dorsey & Whitney hired real estate and bankruptcy attorney Steven Smith as a partner. He joins the firm in Dallas from Frost Brown Todd.

Eddie Jauregui, a former prosecutor and deputy chief in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California, has joined Holland & Knight's Los Angeles office as a litigation partner in the white-collar defense and investigations practice. Project finance and energy M&A attorneys Timothy Moran and Philip Corsello also joined Holland & Knight as partners in its D.C. and New York offices, respectively. Both previously practiced together at DLA Piper, though Corsello more recently was at Schiff Hardin.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has hired Colin Costello in Washington, D.C. He was previously at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, where he was acting director of the National Intelligence Council's Investment Security Group.

Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck hired John Mancebo as a partner in its labor and employment practice in the New York City office. Mancebo was previously chair of Tressler's labor and employment practice group.

Mayer Brown has added a five-lawyer team to its projects & infrastructure practice, led by partners Eric Pogue and John Tormey. Pogue will be based in New York, while Tormey will be based in Washington, D.C. They join from Hunton Andrews Kurth, where Pogue served as a co-chair of that firm's renewable energy practice.

McDermott Will & Emery added white-collar defense partner Carlos Ortiz in New York from Norton Rose Fulbright. The firm also added Brian Stimson, the former acting general counsel and immediate past principal deputy general counsel for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the General Counsel. He joins McDermott in its Washington and Atlanta offices in January.

Ogletree Deakins grew its employment law practice with Florida Assistant Attorney General Patrick Martin and Rick Etter as shareholders in its Miami and Pittsburgh offices, respectively. Martin joins the firm from Greenberg Traurig and Etter joins Ogletree Deakins from Fox Rothschild.

Paul Hastings has added energy, environmental, and infrastructure lawyers Chris Carr and Navi Dhillon as partners in San Francisco. They join from Baker Botts. Neal Fisher Jr. joined Perkins Coie's labor and employment group as partner in Los Angeles, moving over from Davis Wright Tremaine. Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman has brought on Stephen Ashley as a new partner in its capital markets practice in New York. He is joining from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe.

Rimon Law added international transactions and data privacy specialist Sarah (Xiaohua) Zhao. She joins as a partner from Baker & Hostetler.

Ryan Preston Dahl has joined Ropes & Gray as a partner from Weil, Gotshal & Manges. Dahl joins the firm's Chicago and New York offices.

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has brought on U.S. Supreme Court and appellate advocate Shay Dvoretzky to launch a Supreme Court and appellate litigation group. Dvoretzky, formerly at Jones Day, joins the firm's Washington, D.C., office as a partner.

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has brought on antitrust partner Beau Buffier as a partner in the New York office. Prior to joining Wilson Sonsini, Buffier served as the antitrust bureau chief of the New York State Office of the Attorney General.