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Your Goals Are Foremost
My experience, first as a lawyer and then as a business executive, has given me a fuller perspective on what is important about providing legal services to clients in important transactions that may affect their lives, fortune and family. Lawyers can sometimes become convinced that they are the center of the transaction or matter, and that the most important decisions and actions taken in pursuit of a successful outcome are theirs. I never adopt that perspective. I realize that I must always put your goals ahead of any other consideration in my practice. I work with others in the transaction, whether they are on your side or the other, to realize the goals you have defined, while protecting your interests from foreseeable legal and financial consequences. In doing this, I use a consensus-building approach to interactions with all parties and key consultants, because unnecessary confrontation simply causes friction and delay.
Keeping You Informed Increases Your Confidence
Open, continuous and effective communication with you, my client, is the most crucial way to strengthen your confidence that your goals are of utmost importance in all the legal work I do for you. If I were difficult to contact, or took days to return your calls or emails, you necessarily wonder if I am working on your matter with the focus and diligence that you feel is required. The second core value of my practice is honoring my commitment to your goals by letting you know regularly and clearly where I stand on your matter.
Integrity
Keeping your promises to and on behalf of your client. Being honest with your client and others in the transaction. Dealing fairly with your client. Placing the interest of your client before your own interest. These are the building blocks of integrity. I am committed to acting with integrity in every transaction or matter I undertake for a client. You deserve nothing less than my complete honesty, truthfulness and commitment to your interests above my own.
Specialization
I admire those who can seemingly do anything well that they undertake. But in law, trying to do all things with equal skill is often difficult or impossible, and the client is not well served by a lawyer who maintains he has equal competence in all fields of law. Just as we seek out specialists in medicine and finance, a legal specialist will have more to offer in depth of training, skills and experience, than the generalist. This is why I have restricted my practice to those fields of law that I feel I am qualified to serve your interests with the skill and care that you deserve. Those practice areas are discussed in more depth in the pages that follow.
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