The Daily Journal featured Larson LLP in an article exploring the firm’s growth over the past 10 years, highlighting a culture of collaboration, mentorship, and a shared passion for trial advocacy as core elements of the firm’s success.
Editor-in-chief David Houston sat down with partners Stephen Larson, Paul Rigali, Hilary Potashner, and Rick Richmond, and associates Jina Yoon and Billy Wardlaw to discuss how building a broad litigation practice has served both the firm’s clients and its attorneys.
“Since its founding in January 2016, Larson LLP has grown from a Los Angeles litigation boutique into what its lawyers call a ‘big-case platform,’ now nearly 60 lawyers strong with offices in Los Angeles, Orange County, Washington, D.C., and London,” the article says. “What unites them is not a practice niche, but a shared identity as courtroom lawyers.”
The firm’s emphasis on building a trial-first practice and early history of “sprawling, high-stakes litigation” has shaped a culture focused on courtroom strength and savvy. “At the beginning, I wanted to be able to fight a two-front war,” Larson reflected. “Then I went to, well, we got to be able to fight a three-front war…which we have been.”
“We have not divided the firm’s attorneys into practice groups,” said Rigali, describing the firm’s structure. “We believe talking on a wide variety of legal issues makes us better lawyers and better storytellers.”
Wardlaw and Yoon describe access to senior partners and an emphasis on in-person communication as support for early responsibility and substantive courtroom experience. “You can’t get mentorship online,” Jina said. “Even those little conversations you overhear out in the hallway…you don’t get that when you’re remote,” Billy added.
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