Our Practice
Ten departments, each with its own code in the firm’s matter register. A family that needs three of them at once does not need three firms.
Introduction
Clients rarely arrive with one problem. A business owner comes about a contract and mentions, on the way out, that his mother can no longer manage her own accounts. A widow comes about her husband’s estate and discovers that the company he founded has no succession agreement at all. The matter that brings someone through the door is seldom the matter that most needs attention.
This practice is organised around that fact. Ten departments, each carrying its own code in the firm’s register, span private wealth and family, business and finance, real property, maritime, tax, litigation, employment, insolvency, intellectual property and government. The purpose of the breadth is not to advertise capability. It is that the second problem can be taken up in the same conversation as the first, by the same lawyer — without a referral, a new engagement letter, or a month spent explaining your family to a stranger.
What follows is each department in its own words: what the work actually involves, the areas within it, a sample of the matters it has handled, and the questions clients ask before they instruct us.
The method
I
Every matter is opened under a department code and screened against the register before advice is given.
II
What we propose to do, in what order, and what it will cost. Nothing proceeds on an understanding.
III
Drafted, reviewed and signed by the attorney on the file. No matter is delegated out of this office.
IV
Every instrument, letter and statement is deposited to your portal and kept there for as long as you are a client of the firm.
