Eight Sacramento lawyers to leave DLA Piper next month

A national law firm will enter the Sacramento market next month, but the faces behind it are familiar. A group of at least eight health-care lawyers and two paralegals in the Sacramento office of DLA Piper are leaving the firm to open a local branch of Atlanta-based King & Spalding on Sept. 7. They are in final negotiations for space in the 25-story U.S. Bank Tower on Capitol Mall. The group is headed by Steve Goff, a health-care litigator with expertise in managed care and major clients like Sacramento-based…