After a year of rapid growth, Goldberg, Lowenstein & Weatherwax wants to become a player in the video game industry.

The boutique firm, founded by three Irell & Manella alums in February 2012, is launching a video game law practice group with 18 attorneys, including two of the firm’s founding partners, Nathan Lowenstein and Kenneth Weatherwax. Both have represented video game companies in the past. The majority of the team will be based in the Los Angeles office because “a lot of [the video game companies] are just down the block, within shouting distance,” said Lowenstein.