Former Rep. Ron Klink, D-PA, and former Rep. Thomas Reynolds, R-NY, are making their moves around K Street.

Klink who has been leading Ron Klink and Associates since 2001 when he left Congress, joined Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough's government relations team.

"While in Congress, Klink served on the Financial Services Committee, the Education and Workforce Committee, the Small Business Committee, the Commerce Committee, and was assigned a seat on the influential Telecommunications Subcommittee and helped draft the Telecommunications Act of 1996," according to the firm.

Nelson Mullins also announced Thursday that it has hired eight others to fill in its government relations and administrative law team including: Robert Crowe, Craig Huseman Metz, Christopher Cushing, Joseph Donovan, Christopher Greeley, Michael Murphy, and Mick Nardelli, Jennifer Pharaoh.

Reynolds is joining Nixon Peabody as a senior strategic policy adviser and his former chief of staff Sally Vastola is joining as a strategic policy adviser, Legal Times reports. The hire adds a high-profile name to Nixon Peabody's new government relations and public policy practice.

                                                                                        - Winter Casey