Our Services | What We Do
We are a group of lawyers who exclusively work with legal professionals.
We offer both legal and private fiduciary services to law firms anywhere in the world.
We exclusively work with attorneys and do not accept individual clients or pending legal matters.
We are lawyers who exclusively work with legal professionals.
We offer both legal and private fiduciary services to law firms anywhere in the world.
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We exclusively work with attorneys and do not accept individual clients or pending legal matters for which we might have an independent relationship to fulfill any client needs or requirements — in other words, we provide services only to the legal professional. That means as a private judge; mediator; arbitrator; consultant; private fiduciary; expert witness and counselor.
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When another lawyer forms an association with this firm, during which we are serving in some specific capacity to that attorney; the client of that original lawyer remains the client of the original office and does not become one of our clients. There are no exceptions to that rule.
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We only work on legal matters for other counsel. All clients remain with the originating office, and we assist the colleague with the particular matter at hand. The legal status of being “of counsel” is well established in the custom and practice of the Bar Association which governs the practice of law.
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As an example, we are not of counsel ever; because we have no continuing relationship with anyone. In the prosecution of any legal remedy, we may become in contact with another non legal professional individual; or to a group of people similarly situated by circumstances; we can never be their lawyer so to speak.
Cross Border Matters
Cross border matters involve very different and incongruously overlapping of different jurisdictions which have different legal systems.
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Those matters requiring the drafting of contracts for operations that are planned to take place between opposing legal systems; the drafting of complex legal contracts with consequences that depend on different procedural and substantive rules; and interpretation of different languages and geographical locations.
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This assumes what is a simple business initiative; becomes more complicated because of the absence of borders in transactions, and the operation of parties in separate jurisdictions who have different methods of doing business; and that conflict presents enforcement obstacles when it comes to fulfilling expectations of recovery from a loss or dispute.
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We address and design the various legal and commercial remedies and strategies to resolve disputes by using litigation, arbitration mediation, or other private fiduciary methodologies.
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We can locate other experts; recommend the services of other lawyers or firms anywhere in the world; but, they don’t really work for us either. They might be retained or not by other clients or lawyers.
We are prepared to act quickly!
We are accustomed to sharing the experience of a client who has had an unfortunate encounter with a business crisis and we are adept at the art of managing expectations over sustained periods in multiple jurisdictions.
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We know that agreements more often than expected are not clear on the choice of law issues that are both substantive and procedural and involve conflicts of laws and remedies.
Representative Cases
Representative cases may be social media disputes; intellectual property disagreements; white-collar criminal matters; whistleblower remedies; and USA taxation matters to name a few.
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Our cases are generally sui generis, most often in the last 10 years with a component of the jurisdiction in the USA; this results frequently in the world of today and carries the full impact of US taxation on income together with the draconian effect of the enforcement of the FATCA tax risk from foreign bank related matters. For that reason, our referrals come only from other colleagues and legal counsel; and we also seek other special legal counsel as well as outside experts when it comes to our own agreement to appear somewhere in the world on behalf of a client.
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In short, our fees are not comprehensive and do not include outside costs or expenses which have to be budgeted.
Legal Fees
Legal fees are very specific as to each one of our relationships and are not negotiable; however the actual fee deal may be a set fee, including a limit on fees; and contingency fee arrangements in the appropriate case. The actual fee terms are not limited by any particular currency by the way.
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We regret that anyone feels before they come to our offices that they may have a hopeless matter that can’t get sorted out; or, that that failures or devaluations to the date we are retained are fatal to the cause being pursued; but we are not dismayed, based on 50 years of experience, that any one factor controls the outcome of the shared legal experience we may be engaged in together.
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Life may have changed entirely and permanently from events in 2020, and we are certainly in a process of permanent change going forward. We accept that as a fact and do not consider anything we do to be routine.
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Our reaction is to deal with life by employing legal confrontation in many contexts including litigation or arbitration, and we don’t shy away from the cloak of authority or fear to litigate against the most formidable opposition. We want you to have closure, and we want to bring finality to difficulty in your life. We think that is what is sought as “Justice” based on past experience.
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Money is a problem in a crisis: We prefer to discuss openly and frankly the current independent resources for the financing of litigation or specific aspects of the legal process. Resources may come from direct outside funding in part; or, in total; as well as insurance aspects to the financial process of recovering from a loss in the legal system. This topic is complex and part of the process.
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Rules of Engagement
In short, you have a confidential relationship with the firm starting with the first communication; we check into conflicts of interest, and if there are none; we move to the retainer agreement.
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The legal engagement which included the consultation details protects you and the confidential nature of all information of yours disclosed to us forever, and the retainer defines the job we agree to do for you. Neither relationship ends without a formal disengagement communication.
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Insurance: We don’t carry; or, provide malpractice insurance for many reasons; but, suffice it to say our focus is on the evaluation of viable remedies, including those which may have been lost already as the result of prior attorney misconduct; breach of contract; or, negligence.
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We are published experts in the field of legal malpractice; and maintain the highest standards of practice pursuant to our ethical duty to do so. Current insurance products are not designed to cover our type of legal cases.
Professional Trustees
We are professional trustees who enter into private fiduciary relationships. With regard to our trust account, we are required to maintain currency in the California State Bar account pursuant to the rules of conduct.
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However, as private fiduciaries, we maintain also maintain fiduciary accounts virtually on the commercial cloud and blockchain resources; and that applies to tangible or property assets like wills, trust agreements, contracts, birth certificates, stock certificates, judgments; bitcoin or bitcoin account numbers; trade secrets or know-how descriptions; scientific data that is proprietary and any type of detail that may be time-sensitive.
Secrecy, Security, and Confidentiality
The distinctions between our law firm cloud and blockchain services and commercial options are clear. Meaning that your assets are also highly confidential as well as protected permanently by our professional duty of confidentiality. Never lost; and, never disclosed are high ambitions in the days of lost bitcoin account numbers; hacked computers accounts; lost data; lost devices and compromised accounts.
Pro Bono Publico
Pro Bono Publico services are an important part of the profile of this practice. We invite new lawyers, underemployed or even non-employed licensees, to engage in mentoring, collegial practice management, and start-up supervision to fulfill total State Bar compliance requirements to contact us.
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We do not charge you because of traditional professional courtesy. All we ask is that you disclose our participation appropriately to the world, and accept our conditions. This transparency matters to fulfill our business plan during the ongoing disruption in our lives.
