When Emil Davtyan formed his wage and hour class action law firm in 2015, he had to be collaborative.
At the time, what was then known as Davtyan Law made a name for itself in identifying its potential class actions, doing the groundwork and research to prepare the cases – and then partnering with an outside firm to actually litigate that case.
In 2023, Davtyan decided it was time to evolve – thus setting his firm on the path to becoming D.Law and growing from just eight attorneys to 50 within four years.
“Litigation has been in the last three years pretty much the focus of the next stage growth for the firm,” Davtyan said. “Everything is done to litigate cases in house. The firm has focused essentially all growth-related steps to, ‘How do we grow our ability to handle more cases in-house?’”
Litigation has been the name of the game for another firm – San Francisco-based Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani – as it has significantly ramped up its Los Angeles-area operation. In four years, the Am Law 100 firm has jumped from 85 attorneys working out of its downtown operation to 211 – a staggering growth of 126 attorneys.
The firm – which boasts the signature of being the only law firm with offices in all 50 states in the U.S. – is the sixth largest firm in the country and now counts about 10% of its entire attorney headcount as working out of L.A. in some capacity.
As Brandon Saxon – a San Diego-based member of GRSM’s national management council who broadly plots the firm’s...
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