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What billable hours? By Jennifer Poff Cooper Is your New River Valley business looking for outside legal help that is both highly specialized and client service oriented? Perhaps a boutique law firm—like CowanPerry—is the answer. A boutique law firm is a collection of generally two to ten attorneys organized in a limited liability partnership or professional corporation specializing in niche areas of law practice.
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CowanPerry PC opened in April of 2013 as such a firm. Jim Cowan, Chairman, had worked at a national law firm before he and David Perry decided there was a need for a new service model in southwest Virginia. Growth in the area brought about the need for more sophisticated legal services. Cowan said that people generally think first of technology firms as their clients, but CowanPerry serves a “diverse range” of companies: manufacturing businesses making everything from furniture to high tech or biotech products, non-profits, economic development entities (Onward New River Valley and the Wythe County Joint Industrial Development Authority), community banks, and commercial real estate and developers. The firm decided to situate its NRV office (there is also one in Roanoke) in the Virginia Tech Corporate Research