“More Better” at Business Transactions & Commercial Litigation

You read that right. When it comes to attorneys, "more better" is actually a thing. Let me explain.

We get inquiries all the time from prospective clients with legal issues and problems to address and resolve.   These queries arrive via email and telephone calls from here, there, and everywhere.

When we first launched CLF, we were tempted to jump in and assist everyone with almost all types of legal issues and problems.

More and more, however, we just say no.

Why?

We are experts in certain areas of the law practice, and we specialize in those practice areas. We specialize in the areas of law where we have the most expertise and experience, and where we feel we can truly deliver exceptional value for our business clients.

Notably we are experts and specialists in business transactions, business/commercial dispute resolution, and commercial litigation.

We have a vast amount of experience in these practice areas, probably as much experience as any attorneys practicing law in our geographic area.  We are experts, experienced and efficient at handling matters in these practice areas where we can truly deliver exceptional value.

Have we handled other types of matters? Yes, certainly.

We handle general business matters every day, and we do so because we are experts in handling these matters and can deliver exceptional value.

Occasionally, we might handle a matter outside of our core competency, typically as an accommodation for a close friend or longtime client.

But, by and large, as we are experts and specialists in business transactions, commercial dispute resolution and litigation. We just say no when we are asked to handle other matters and we refer them out to other counsel who specialize in those practice areas unrelated to our core competency. Such areas might include divorce, malpractice, collections, bankruptcy, or criminal law.  We have developed a network of attorneys who practice in these other areas outside of our core competency so the needs of our clients will not go unaddressed.

Two quotes or stories come to mind as to why we operate this way:

First, remember that folks that do a little bit of everything typically know very little about anything. They are jacks of all trades and masters of none.

Second, I recall a story told by John Kenneth Galbraith, a professor of mine during my Freshman year at Harvard. Galbreath was a Nobel Prize-winning economist, Ambassador to India and a close advisor to President Kennedy among other achievements. Galbreath explained that he was a better typist than anyone at Harvard and certainly than his secretary. Yet he explained that he let his secretary do all his typing. For while he was a better typist than his secretary, he was comparatively far better than her at doing the other things that he did, be it teaching students, advising Presidents, etc.

Galbreath was, if you will, more better than his secretary at these activities than at typing.

And so it is with our lawyers. Our comparative advantage, what we are truly best at and most uniquely qualified for, where we deliver the most exceptional value, are the business transactions, commercial dispute resolution, and litigation on which we focus and in which we specialize.