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Law, with a Financial Bent

David J. Duquette founded his law

firm last year and last month shuttered a Manhattan office

to do business solely in Princeton. "We closed our office in New

York because we weren’t even using it any more," says Duquette,

"though we do spend a fair amount of time in the city."

Duquette grew up in Albany, the son of an engineering professor at

Rensselaer. He went to Princeton, Class of 1986, has a law degree

from the University of Virginia, and is currently in the Executive

MBA program at Columbia. For five years at Rogers & Wells in

Manhattan,

he did securities work, and then he was a partner in Duquette & Tipton

LLP in New York City. Recently Duquette and his wife, Patricia (who

went to Dartmouth, UVA, and New York University for a PhD in German),

moved from Greenwich to Princeton with their preschool child.

Lawrence Cohen, an associate in the firm, grew up in Brooklyn and went

to Brooklyn College (Class of

1976),

and Buffalo School of Law. He has worked at Reed Smith Shaw McClay

in Newark, Kelley Drye & Warren in Stamford, and Morgan Lewis &

Bockius

in New York. He provides legal services to broker-dealers, investment

advisor, and others in the financial industry.

Appropriately located in a building owned by William Sword Co., the

investment banking firm on Chambers Street, the firm has national,

rather than local clients, and focuses on private equity matters in

the telecommunications software and new media fields — buyouts,

venture capital, acquisitions, investment advisory matters, fund

formation,

and broker-dealer issues.

"I know a lot about software and grew up in an extremely

computer-savvy

environment, but we don’t focus on the technology end as much as the

financial end. We have built a network of clients who know that we

utilize information and technology similar to the way that they

do,"

Duquette says. "We work with investors and go significantly

farther

down the road than most lawyers do, as far as providing business

advice.

Sometimes we are willing to put our money where our mouth is."

In other words, to invest.