In the Counsel's Chair: Daralyn Durie on building a law firm

Daralyn Durie and a group of colleagues took what most would consider a terrible risk in 2009 -- launching a boutique trial firm in the middle of the financial crisis, operating out of a borrowed conference room with spotty cell reception.

Fourteen years later, after building Durie Tangri into a 37-lawyer firm known for high-stakes IP and class action defense, the partners merged with Morrison Foerster in 2023.

In this conversation, Daralyn shares the unglamorous realities of firm founding (city business licenses, anyone?), the major cases they tackled (including existential patent litigation against Accenture and class action trials for the California State University system), and what it's like spending five months trying a case in Sonoma County with three associates -- including regular fights over whose shower actually had hot wat ...