Starting out, on a wing and a prayer
Dec 8, 2015 By Matthew Friedberg
To the unknowing eye, the windowless space was a dusty storage room. But to Matthew Friedberg and Sal Caramanna, it was a big city legal office?—?their office.
When the two criminal lawyers, who had articled together in the mid-‘90s, decided to start their own firm more than a decade ago, they were living the dream and flying by the seats of their pants.
“We were young and didn’t know what we were doing,” says Friedberg. “We wanted to keep our costs down and we realized we needed to get some sort of space but we ended up renting a storage space with no windows and calling it an office. It was in a law chambers with boxes of other people’s files. We plugged in a phone that I brought from home and we called it an office.”
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