Bloomberg Law
Feb. 1, 2016, 2:40 PM UTC

Is 2016 the Year of the Litigation Boutique?

Casey Sullivan

We just finished January and already there have been three major announcements of large groups of lawyers splintering off the BigLaw mothership to launch their own boutiques.

First, eleven lawyers decamped from Arent Fox in California to form Larson O’Brien . Then, two lawyers departed Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison to start Wilkinson Walsh & Eskovits . And on Friday, news surfaced that 22 partners are set to leave Schiff Hardin to form Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila.

Small firms offer lawyers an opportunity to build their book of business, uninhibited by the potential client conflicts of a large firm, ...

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