Roger Browdy said the chance to be free from law firm management duties while he and others earned greater shares of billings were major factors in closing the 72-year-old intellectual property boutique his father founded in Washington, D.C. 

Browdy and three other lawyers from Browdy and Neimark joined fully distributed firm FisherBroyles as partners in recent weeks after announcing in September the end of operations for the firm that Browdy's late father, Alvin Browdy, founded in 1952.