Cozen O’Connor’s growing state attorneys general practice has lured a former Virginia attorney general away from his powerful hometown firm. Jerry Kilgore left McGuireWoods— sometimes called the “shadow government of Richmond” and host to two other ex-Virginia attorneys general—for Philadelphia-based Cozen O’Connor this week.

Kilgore was attorney general from 2002 to 2005, when he resigned to run for governor. He won the Republican primary but lost in the general election to Democrat Tim Kaine.