Dot-com lawyers are still in demand, but there aren't as many billable hours to go around, and the nature of the available work has changed.
Litigation related to the dot-com crash is one hot niche.
Dot-com bankruptcy work is another. In 1999, when Bradley Schwartz and James Baer decided to open Strategic Law Partners, targeting the technology market made sense. Given last year's near-complete reversal of that world view, one might expect the principals in a tiny boutique focused on the tech market to feel a bit, well, depressed. But you won't find two people more confident than Baer and Schwartz that theirs was the right decision, despite the timing. Merging Growth Even against the backdrop of a precarious technology market, the life span of Irvine's Spectrum Law Group rates a mention for brevity.