New Leaf Legal, Boston-born and currently located in WorkBar on Atlantic Avenue, is a brand new firm of young lawyers out to make a difference in the entrepreneurial world by being entrepreneurs themselves.
It’s nothing new. Lawyers start firms all the time. But that doesn’t mean they diverge from the practices in use at massive law firms when they strike out on their own. That’s where New Leaf differs. (Hence the name.)
“[Being a startup] gives us a real opportunity to relate,” says Jessica Manganello, a corporate law specialist at New Leaf. “We’ve worked with a lot of startups, and the fact that we’re doing this ourselves takes the ‘ivory tower’ element out of it. We can relate.” (more…)


