SAN FRANCISCO — “Washington” used to be a dirty word in Silicon Valley.

When James Snipes relocated from the country’s capital a decade ago to help open Covington & Burling’s office in San Francisco, tech innovators in the Valley were used to doing things their own way, playing by their own rules. “They didn’t need government very much,” Snipes said.

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