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Solo and Small Firms

May 26, 2012

Seeing Eye to Eye

Clement Glynn, co-founder of Glynn & Finley, left Pillsbury to start a defense-side version of a plaintiffs' firm. While the business was successful from the start, it took six years to create the right culture.


By Susan McRae


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Sometimes it takes a while for a small firm to find its way. It took Clement L. Glynn six years to reach that point.


In 1991, he left Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP (now Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP) to start a defense-side litigation boutique with four colleagues.


While he said the firm was successful from the start, the lawyers differed on how it should be run. By 1997, he was the...

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