Former Nevada Attorney General Adam Paul Laxalt.

Former Nevada attorney general Adam Laxalt has joined litigation boutique Cooper & Kirk, where he will split his time between Nevada and the firm's home office in Washington, D.C.

He announced the news in a Facebook post, saying he would be based in Reno, Nevada, but also maintain offices in Las Vegas and D.C.

“I am excited to announce that I am a new partner at Cooper & Kirk PLLC,” Kirk wrote in the post. “Cooper & Kirk is one of the nation’s premier boutique trial and appellate litigation firms. I am honored to join the existing team of talented attorneys that include many U.S. Supreme Court clerks and nationally renowned litigators.”

Cooper & Kirk has gained attention in recent years for representations involving prominent Republican clients and causes. Charles Cooper, founding member and chairman of the firm, was former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions' personal lawyer and previously defended Proposition 8, California's gay-marriage ban. (He has since said his views on same-sex marriage are changing, and helped arrange a same-sex wedding for his stepdaughter.) More recently, Cooper & Kirk worked with Arizona attorney general Mark Brnovich, a Republican, in a 2018 probe of Google.

Prior to entering public office as Nevada's AG, Laxalt was an attorney at Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie, a firm with roots in the Southwest and mountain West. Laxalt was also a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps from 2005 to 2010.

Laxalt’s announcement of his new gig also foreshadowed that he may continue to pursue a career in public service. His post noted the tradition of Cooper & Kirk alumni in government, particularly U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas, and U.S. Solicitor General Noel Francisco.

Laxalt stumped for Cruz during the Texan’s failed 2016 presidential bid for the GOP nomination, before his own unsuccessful run to serve as governor of Nevada last year.

Laxalt’s 2014 electoral victory to the state attorney’s general seat was reportedly the first time in 100 years a statewide election was won by a candidate that did not carry Nevada’s largest population hubs of Clark County, which includes Las Vegas, and Washoe County, which includes Reno.

Laxalt comes from a prominent political family in the Silver State. Adam Laxalt’s grandfather is Paul Laxalt, former U.S. Senator and governor from Nevada. Adam Laxalt’s biological father, the late Pete Domenici, is a former U.S. Senator from New Mexico who served for more than 30 years. Laxalt was born in Reno and raised in the D.C.-area.

The Las Vegas to D.C. path may not be as well-trodden by lawyers as the northeast corridor, but Laxalt won't be alone in dividing his time between the capital and the Silver State. In 2018, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck added Greg Brower, the FBI’s former top congressional liaison, as partner in its litigation department in D.C. and Las Vegas.

Cooper & Kirk did not respond to request for comment.