Steptoe & Johnson has hired a first-chair trial lawyer from Boies Schiller Flexner to co-lead its Los Angeles office.

Robyn Crowther joined Steptoe & Johnson last week to serve as its Los Angeles office’s co-managing partner. She is the third partner to have left Boies Schiller this year, after Travis LeBlanc, who joined Cooley to help build out its East Coast litigation practice, and IP partner Michael Jay, who joined DLA Piper’s Century City office.