The 17 lawyers left Watt, Tiedear, Hoffar & Fitzgerald and set up Varela, Lee, Metz & Gaurino in  March. The new firm hopes to be more flexible - by using contract lawyers on temporary projects and by making more use of cloud-based technology. Partner David Wonderlick said: ‘There are very few construction projects that are going to be built precisely as they are planned. There are going to be changes and there are often disputes over whether and how much is going to be paid for those changes.’ Source: Washington Post