At Armbruster Goldsmith & Delvac LLP, there is no receptionist, no reception desk and not a single paralegal.
The six-attorney Los Angeles land use boutique recently cut its office space in half. Its lawyers generally work without legal secretaries, and clients rarely visit the office. Three experienced land use planners handle much of the work that larger firms might assign to junior attorneys.
It is an unusually spare operation for a firm whose lawyers hav... (continued)
