More Biglaw Attorneys Starting Solo Biglaw Practices

We’ve more news to report about former biglaw attorneys who, like the biglaw attorneys here and here, have put out their shingles.  What’s unique about all of these new law firms is that they focus on practice areas like securities law, business transactions and communications which have traditionally been within the domain of large firm practitioners.  As an energy regulatory attorney who’s also been competing with large firms for years, I gladly welcome the company.

As reported in  Big Firm Litigators Reunite by Forming Boutique,
Legal Intelligencer (7/1/05),  Matthew Wynn, a workers’ compensation
defense litigator formerly at Littler Mendelson, and Raymond McGarry, a
commercial litigator previously with Buchanan Ingersoll, have started
the boutique litigation practice, Wynn McGarry in King of Prussia, Pa.
According to the article, Wynn decided to leave because of an inability
to take advantage of the firm’s national presence because his
specialty, workers’ comp, tends to be local.

And this press release,
Ex-Big Firm Attorneys Form First Black Women Owned Communications Law Practice, (7/6/05),  announces the creation of a bi-coastal communications and entertainment
law practice by three black women lawyers, Jeneba Jalloh Ghatt who has
formed strategic partnerships with Nicolaine Lazarre, an ex- Weil,
Gotshal & Manges LLP corporate associate who is based in New York
city and Fatima Fofana, the Los Angeles-based attorney who once worked
on multi-million dollar deals at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP. Together,
the three have over two decades of media and policy experience and a
history representing Fortune 500 companies.

Best of luck to all these new shinglers – and biglaw, watch out!