Boutique Law Firm Swallowed by Boies Schiller

After working at his own boutique for 20 years, New York litigator Sean O’Shea doesn’t feel he’s leaving much behind in taking a new role at the larger litigation powerhouse Boies Schiller & Flexner.

The way he sees it, in joining Boies Schiller’s 300-lawyer roster, he is reaping all of the benefits of a big firm — the manpower to slog through documents and research a myriad of legal strategies — without any of the cons: client conflicts, bureaucratic management and the restriction to stick with defense side work.

“It’s a lot more fun” to do both plaintiffs and defense work, 59-year-old O’Shea said in an ...