The firm

Small by design, senior by default.

The firm takes few matters and staffs them with partners. Everything else about how we work follows from that one decision.

Founded

2009

Started by litigators who left leveraged practices because they wanted to try the cases themselves.

Partners

6

Six partners across New York, Washington D.C. and London. Every matter is argued by one of them.

Acceptance

8%

Eleven matters accepted from 142 substantive inquiries last year. The ceiling is per partner, counted every quarter.

Leverage

1:2.5

Partners to associates. Firms ten times our size run at 1:6 to 1:10, because their economics require it.

How it started

FromoneconferenceroominlowerManhattantotheCommission,theCommercialCourtandajuryboxinLosAngeles—argued,everytime,bythepartnerwhotookthecall.

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Six partners, three officesNew York · Washington D.C. · London
Brief a partner
Standing rules

Six rules that decide how a matter is run here.

None of them are aspirations. They are the operating constraints that make a partner-tried matter possible, and the reason the firm cannot grow past the number of matters its partners can personally carry.

  • Read every document.
  • One partner, one lectern.
  • Decline more than we accept.
  • Privilege before production.
  • One record across two forums.
  • Bad news first, in writing.
What We Do

Five practices, and a short list of matters.

We take a matter only if a partner has the calendar to try it.

What the client is buying

Attention, not headcount.

A general counsel instructing this firm is buying a defined amount of a named partner’s time and the judgment that comes with it. That is a finite thing, which is why the firm is finite too — and why the answer to most inquiries is a referral rather than an engagement letter.

  • 6

    Partners

  • 21

    Lawyers in total

  • 3

    Offices

The partnership

The six who try the matters.

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    Managing Partner · Disputes & Trials

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    Partner · Investigations & Enforcement

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    Partner · Disputes & Trials

Contact

Put the matter to a partner.

Tell us what the exposure is and which forum it sits in. Conflicts are run the same day. If we are the wrong firm for it, we will say so and tell you who is not.

Privileged & confidential

Send a short brief.

Instruct the firm

One call reaches the person who will argue it.

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