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Solo and Small Firms

Feb. 1, 2014

Wilson Sonsini alumni thriving at his own firm

After nearly 18 years at the Silicon Valley legal powerfouse, James C. Otteson has established an intellectual property firm that has attracted talent from big firms and battles them in cases across the country.


By Kevin Lee


Daily Journal Staff Writer


MENLO PARK - Patent litigator James C. Otteson can recall the first day at his own law firm like it was yesterday.


On the day after Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday in 2010, Otteson moved into rental space at a commercial litigation boutique in San Jose.


"I got all set up in this nice big office that they had rented me and it had a desk, it had a phone, but not much else besides all ...

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