Bloomberg Law
Aug. 23, 2017, 7:44 PM UTC

Cloud-Based Law Firm Founder on Recruiting and Growth

Rebecca Beyer

The mark of success for FisherBroyles, a cloud-based law firm with more than 200 lawyers in 22 offices around the United States, was actually a loss.

In 2013, 16 attorneys representing 25 percent of FisherBroyles at that time, departed to start their own competing cloud-based firm. But the takeaway for firm co-founder James Fisher was that the cloud-based law firm business model had “matured enough” to have a spinoff.

“It was a stressful time, but, after that, we simply went through the roof,” said Fisher, who is also co-managing partner of the firm.

Since 2013, the firm has quadrupled in ...

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