We try to build each client relationship on four pillars:

1. Understanding: We listen. We know that it is essential to fully understand the client's situation and the client's goals.

2. Service: We respond quickly and keep the client fully informed. Our primary purpose is to create "win-win" solutions to problems rather than resort to the all too familiar refrain of "it just can't be done". Above all, we view ourselves as counsellors-at-law with a duty to keep focused on what is truly important in any given matter and to render advice according to our best judgment.

3. Value: With the expertise of our attorneys, we are able handle a wide range of business matters and disputes, from basic to complex. We work leanly and efficiently. Our moderate billing rates reflect our modest overhead and staff costs.

4. Trust: We seek to earn the client's confidence and trust. We place great importance in our professional integrity, ethics and reputation. We will always be candid with our advice to a client even if it isn't what the client wants to hear. That is part of doing our job.



"...what most clients, including corporate clients, want from their lawyers is not just a string of discrete judgments about various aspects of their problem, but deliberative advice as to what they should do, all things considered."


Anthony T. Kronman
Dean, Yale Law School


Reprinted by permission of the publisher from
The Lost Lawyer: Failing Ideals of the Legal Profession
by Anthony T. Kronman, Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1993
by the President and Fellows of Harvard College



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