-- Steven Dettelbach, who served as director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, will rejoin BakerHostetler in April to lead its 400-lawyer litigation practice group, the firm said Monday.

-- Nicholas Folly, who served as deputy chief of the criminal division in the Manhattan U.S. attorney's office, has returned to Debevoise & Plimpton as a counsel in its San Francisco office. His boss, former Manhattan U.S. attorney Damian Williams, joined Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison earlier this month.

-- Andrew Dean, who co-led the assets management unit at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, has joined Weil, Gotshal & Manges as a partner in New York.

The moves follow weeks of earlier law firm hires of agency appointees and civil servants leaving government as Democratic former President Joe Biden prepared to leave office ahead of the new Republican administration.

Last week a string of outgoing government lawyers joined firms, including Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton; Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; King & Spalding; and Paul Weiss; Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan.

Rhonda Schmidtlein, a Democrat who served as a commissioner on the U.S. International Trade Commission for more than a decade, is leaving the agency to join Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, the firm said on Thursday.