Daralyn Durie, who co-founded the IP litigation boutique Durie Tangri in 2009, has gone to bat for some of Silicon Valley’s biggest tech companies. The secret to her success, she says, has been building trust with clients and understanding how to make their legal problems less of a distraction. Durie anticipates a cooldown in patent litigation, but is bullish on her firm’s future.
You left Keker & Van Nest to open Durie Tangri. What advice do you have for other lawyers considering opening their own shop? I encourage people to do it. I think for law students coming out of prestigious law schools and planning to go into private practice the expectation is that you’re just going to join sort of a relatively large firm. And that doesn’t have to be. I think a lot of people think that being in a big firm is more stable and more secure. I think the reverse is true. If you look around there’s plenty of big firms that have experienced turmoil.
