Former Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld partner Barry Chasnoff tried retirement but didn’t like it. So he returned to the practice of law by forming a small firm with three younger lawyers from Norton Rose Fulbright.

Chasnoff, who is based in San Antonio and served as Akin Gump’s general counsel, opened Chasnoff Mungia Pepping & Stribling in April with Manuel Mungia, Matthew Pepping and Blake Stribling. Chasnoff’s three partners had been senior associates at Norton Rose in San Antonio, but Mungia and Pepping formerly worked with Chasnoff at Akin Gump in San Antonio.