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Solo and Small Firms

Oct. 21, 2014

Employment attorneys advocate co-counseling

For the last several years, the California Employment Lawyers Association or CELA has been encouraging its newer and younger members to team with co-counsel.


By Melanie Brisbon


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Fresh out of law school in 2012, Branigan A. Robertson, 30, decided that he didn't want to work for a big law firm.


So he turned down a job offer from a firm he'd worked at as a summer associate and hung out his own shingle as a plaintiffs' employment lawyer.


Robertson said he was honest and upfront with clients about his youth and inexperience, and told them he'd team up...

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