OUR PRACTICE

We are a small specialty law firm of three partners and seven para-professionals. We are all "refugees" from larger law firms. Our Founding Senior Partner, Don Holmes, was head of the government contract litigation section at Jones Day, the largest centrally managed law firm in the world. Besides two experienced trial lawyers, we have two para-professionals with significant trial and litigation experience. We also have a research librarian and a mathematician on staff to assist us. We have a wide group of scientific, engineering and financial consultants we regularly work with and make available to our clients when there is a need. 

Being a "refugee" from a large law firm gives you an approach to the practice of law and an attitude that is different. We like the most difficult cases we can find. We like people calling us "lawyers of last resort." And some of our clients call us that because we have taken cases that many other law firms have turned down and successfully tried them or settled them.

We also are sensitive about the fact that lawyers have largely priced themselves out of everyone's ability to afford them, except the largest corporations in the United States. Many of the cases that we take for small businesses could not be economically handled by larger law firms because their overhead is so lopsided and large. We have controlled our overhead so that we can all make a decent living, but at the same time, hold our rates down to affordable levels.

Throughout this website you'll find straight talk about legal issues, approaches to resolution and how much our work costs. That's the way we work. Let us talk to you about your specific problem and see if it fits in to our overall approach described above.