sentences:  The firm lost almost 200 attorneys between merger and the October 2008 dissolution vote, including many important rainmakers and practice groups, who moved to such leading firms as DLA Piper, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, Proskauer Rose, and Loeb & Loeb.In late September 2008 twenty attorneys in the firm's China practice group in its Washington D.C. and Shanghai offices left for Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman.In July 2008, the firm internally announced its intention to seek another merger partner to boost its headcount and stem the tide of partner defections.