What makes our firm different from other law firms is, I think at least, two fold. One is our flexibility in fee arrangements. We provide services on an hourly basis, on a contingency or percentage basis, and also on a hybrid basis which is a combination of a reduced hourly rate and a reduced contingency fee. That allows the ultimate and utmost flexibility to our clients in order to provide them with excellent services that they can afford.

Another aspect in which our firm differs from many other firms is our trial experience. Our firm has substantial both jury and bench, that means judge, trial experience and that is helpful, not only to make sure you have a competent attorney who knows how to try a case but also, sending a message to your opponent that, if necessary, our attorneys will try a case. And, that has a very substantial impact on settlement posture. ‘Cause if your opponent knows or suspects that you are not willing to try a case they’re going to use that to their advantage. They’re going to bluff, they’re going to push you, they’re going to make you concede to their demands, otherwise you have to go to trial. But, when they see our track record and our ability and success in trying cases our opponents know that that strategy will not work.

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How to hire a good business litigator I think involves certainly, interviewing that attorney, getting to meet them and making sure that you have a good dynamic with your attorney. Because, an attorney client relationship is, in fact, a relationship. And, there are some clients who want to be hand held by their attorney through the entire process. There are some clients who want to, for lack of a better phrase, play attorney and get themselves involved in the nitty gritty of everything that goes on. There are some clients who don’t wanna be involved. They just say, “This is my problem. I’m not a lawyer, you are. Go take it and handle it.” Each one has it’s own unique dynamic. So, you wanna make sure that the attorney that you’re working with is somebody that’s going to allow you to participate, or not participate, to the amount and degree that you want to.

Another thing that I think is particularly important, if I were interviewing an attorney is to receive some anecdotal evidence of what they’ve done. I wanna hear stories, I wanna know what my attorney has done in certain different types of cases. How they have used their ingenuity and their creativity and their determination to obtain a beneficial result when, perhaps, sometimes the deck was stacked against them. So, I wanna hear stories. I’m less interested in knowing whether an attorney has litigated my exact case before. Because, what we do as attorneys is we take new situations as they arise and we use our experience and our ingenuity to provide excellent results. So, I wanna know the excellent results as opposed to, necessarily, you know, how many times have you litigated this widget case?