Working with us
Litigation is expensive. We offer value for your money.
A dispute of any complexity is going to require a significant investment in legal fees, especially if a proceeding is aggressively contested. We generally can’t control how much a proceeding will cost, but we do pledge to do the following things to offer you value for your money, help keep your costs more manageable and try to ensure you are not surprised by a bill:
- Our rates: We are a small, boutique law firm, which frees us from maintaining the conventional, overhead-driven, fee structures of larger law firms. Because of our size, we are able to deliver dedicated, customized service to each and every client. We strive to keep our rates fair, reasonable and competitive.
- Our overhead is our overhead. We will only bill you for disbursements that require us to pay somebody else — process servers, large commercial print jobs, courier charges, etc. You will not be charged for in-office printing or scanning, faxes, long-distance telephone calls, or our software subscriptions.
- Regular monthly bills. We will bill you at the end of every month, so you know what your fees are throughout.
- Honest discussions about fees. An estates or trusts dispute is going to be a very significant investment for most people. We encourage our clients to discuss our fees with us, and to ask questions about our work and our bills. Where we can, we will provide rough estimates for work in advance to help you plan and manage the cost of litigation.