Matthew Poppe, a longtime commercial and intellectual property litigator at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, has left the Am Law 100 firm for the San Francisco and Palo Alto, California, outposts of Rimon, a growing boutique based in the Bay Area.

Poppe, whose clients include Chinese social media company Baidu Inc., e-commerce giant eBay Inc. and Palo Alto-based oncology equipment maker Varian Medical Systems Inc., had practiced at Orrick since 1995.

Though Rimon has office space for conferences, most of its work—about 70 percent, according to founding partner Michael Moradzadeh—gets done remotely. Lawyers set their own rates at the 90-lawyer firm, which Morazadeh and co-founder Yaacov Silberman left Ropes & Gray to launch in 2008, and Poppe said low overhead costs and a transparent pay structure were among the factors that attracted him to the firm.