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We Are Who We Are. More Importantly, Who Are You?

Photo, l-r (back) Reeghan Raffals, Patrick Lamb, Hank Turner, Hugh Totten (front) Nicole Auerbach, Mark Sayre and Lisa Castle.

Our individual bios tell our stories in our own words.  (Click on our names to the right). 

Our "Top 8 List" About Who We Are… (how different could we be with a Top 10 list?)

  1. We are all refugees of elite BigLaw firms;
  2. We are skilled courtroom lawyers, in practice and at heart;
  3. We are revolutionaries, risk-takers and entrepreneurs at our core;
  4. We believe you are entitled to budget certainty, and to a real and realized commitment to help you deal with the cost pressures you face;
  5. We believe in collaboration and hold the team rather than the individual sacrosanct;
  6. We love technology and efficiency -- the more red tape we hack through, the better;
  7. We take our work very seriously -- ourselves, not so much;
  8. We are real people, with lives outside the law, and with supportive spouses, significant others and kids (who, at least for today, appear to really like us).

Read about our approach to litigation, replete with some individual war stories.

 

We Are who we are

* Bios and interpretive photos of how we feel about the billable hour.

** This photo of the doors leading to our conference room (or "Bored Room") gives you an idea of how we take our work seriously, but not ourselves (see #7 on our list to the left).

REQUISITES FOR the revolution ...

We are:

Entrepreneurs.  Collaborative.  Strategists and Tacticians.  Creative.  Powerful courtroom advocates.  Business-savvy.  Irreverent.  Perceptive.  Disciplined.  The A-Team.  Results and Process.  Funny and Serious.  Fine Wine and Cold Beer (Miller only).  Work hard and work smart.  Movie-lovers and music makers (at least one of us).  Able to advocate and able to see through the .... er, "advocacy".  Polite (we used the word "advocacy," didn't we?).  Federal Court and State Court.  Appellate Court and Basketball Court.  Unified in rejecting the "billable hour" economic model.  Unafraid to say that "that's the way we've done it before" is the worst phrase ever created..  Five-tool players.

 

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