Two of the state’s most-experienced community association lawyers, George Nowack Jr. and Julie Howard, have left real estate firm Weissman, Nowack, Curry & Wilco, to launch their own firm, NowackHoward, with Weissman’s community association practice. Their new firm has nine lawyers, with nine paralegals and staff.

Nowack and Howard said they needed a separate firm because of the increasing number of conflicts that arose with the growth of Weissman’s commercial real estate practice, which represents developers and builders, and the real estate market’s revival.