Twitch Co-Founder’s New Startup Rents Lawyers to Other Startups

When Silicon Valley companies go looking for legal representation, they generally choose from a short list of well-respected partnerships. There’s 99-year-old <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/1160L%20US%20Equity","_id":"0000016d-3aa4-d433-a3ef-fff49fa30000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">Cooley LLP, 58-year-old <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/1173L%20US%20Equity","_id":"0000016d-3aa4-d433-a3ef-fff49fa30001","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, and 24-year-old <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/817087L%20US%20Equity","_id":"0000016d-3aa4-d433-a3ef-fff49fa30002","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">Gunderson Dettmer. All are run by graduates of prestigious law schools who have decades of experience at the biggest firms. Then there’s the 2-year-old startup Atrium, whose chief executive officer, <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://people/profile/18836242","_id":"0000016d-3aa4-d433-a3ef-fff49fa30003","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">Justin Kan, has no formal legal training but once starred in an online reality show.

Wearing a baseball cap with a little camera attached to it, Kan filmed himself 24/7 for a few months in ...