Ex-Reed Smith Partner Forms Three-Lawyer Tax Boutique in LA

Marty Dakessian has departed Reed Smith to launch a three-attorney tax boutique, called Dakessian Law, with headquarters in Los Angeles and a satellite office in Sacramento.

“In the boutique environment, you can afford to be focused and laser-like in the practice area and the business,” Dakessian told Big Law Business. “I wanted to see what would it be like to take what I had and what I had built in my practice over the course of the last several years, and have it in a boutique environment where that’s all we’re thinking about.”

He joined Reed Smith in 2010 as an income partner ...