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Solo and Small Firms

Mar. 17, 2012

Swanson & McNamara LLP

Edward Swanson and Mary McNamara started their own practice after five years together in the Northern District Federal Public Defender's office.


By Jill Redhage


Daily Journal Staff Writer


"We both stayed late."


That's how Edward W. Swanson remembers getting to know his future law partner, Mary McNamara, in the mid-1990s when they were young lawyers at the Northern District federal public defender's office. Both were pretty green. McNamara had practiced civil litigation at Morrison & Foerster LLP for three years. Swanson had clerked for U.S. District Judge Thelton ...

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