BRIDGING
THE GAP
FOR Lawyers and LAW FIRMS
Meet our team
Daniel O’Rielly
Founding Partner
With more than 25 years of experience in law firms—Mr. O’Rielly counsels and advises California law firms on critical issues at every stage of law firm life.
Dena Roche
Founding Partner
With over 20 years of diverse legal experience, Ms. Roche is a trusted advisor to law firms, in-house legal departments
Jason Williams
Consulting Attorney
Jason Williams is a corporate transactional attorney with more than 15 years of experience advising on complex business transactions, entity structuring, and corporate governance.
Kendra Basner
Partner
Ms. Basner is an experienced litigator and certified specialist in legal malpractice law who counsels and advises lawyers
Andrew Dilworth
Partner
With over 25 years of practice as a trusted adviser and litigator in the area of professional responsibility,
Shu Phua
Tax Counsel
Shu Phua is Tax Counsel at O'Rielly & Roche LLP, where she provides tax advice and counsel to the firm's law firm clients in connection with the firm's law firm formation, structuring, and planning practice.
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PARTNER DEPARTURE LAW
When Is It Time to Consider a Law Firm Dissolution?
Law firm dissolutions happen for a variety of reasons. They are not always linked to the firm’s poor economic health or failed management. But the end of a law firm (or of certain partnerships or affiliations) marks a critical time for law firm owners and their clients and must be handled with the utmost care.
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Are AI Chats Privileged? Landmark Federal Court Ruling on GenAI & Legal Protection
In what appears to be the first federal court ruling of its kind, Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has held that a defendant’s written exchanges with a generative artificial intelligence platform are protected by neither the attorney-client privilege nor the work product doctrine. […]
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Physical Office Requirements for New York Law Firms
Remote work for lawyers is commonplace these days. With the blessing of ABA Opinion 495 (Dec. 2020) and state ethics rules, it’s now routine for attorneys to practice virtually in jurisdictions where they’re licensed, without being physically located in them. In New York, however, remote practice is still governed by Judiciary Law § 470. Under […]
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