Blockchain legal expert Adam Ettinger has left Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton to join cloud-based firm FisherBroyles as a partner and co-chair of its financial technology and blockchain practice group.

At FisherBroyles, a so-called virtual law firm that has grown rapidly in recent years, Ettinger will work out of Los Angeles and Palo Alto. His new firm’s “cloud-commuting” model offers a greater measure of flexibility, both in terms of hourly rates and work-life balance.