Preparation over theatrics
The case is won in the documents and the timeline, long before anyone performs for a jury.
Thirty years of doing the unglamorous work.
No billboards, no late-night ads. A firm built on preparation, plain language, and the discipline to return every call the same day.
Our story
Founded on one stubborn idea.
In 1994, Eleanor Whitman left a large firm because she was tired of watching clients become case numbers. She opened a two-room office with a simple rule: every client gets a named lead, and that lead picks up the phone.
Three decades later the rule has not changed, only the size of the matters. We have argued before appellate courts in three states, closed nine-figure transactions, and sat across the table from firms ten times our size, and won, because we out-prepared them.
We stay deliberately mid-sized. Big enough to handle the bet-the-company matter, small enough that the partner who pitched you is the one who tries your case.
What we hold to
Three values, no slogans.
Plain language, always
If we cannot explain your options in a sentence you would repeat to a friend, we have not done our job.
Same-day callbacks
A returned call within the day, in writing, is not a courtesy here. It is the standard you can hold us to.
The road here
A firm, in five moments.
1994
Two rooms, one rule
Eleanor Whitman opens the firm with a single associate and a commitment to named-lead representation.
2003
First appellate win
A contract dispute reversed on appeal sets the template for how we prepare every matter.
2011
Corporate practice opens
We add transactional counsel so clients stop litigating the disputes a good contract would have prevented.
2018
Licensed in three states
Growth across the region, without losing the same-lead promise that started it all.
2024
$240M recovered
Three decades of careful work, measured the only way clients care about.
The attorneys
The people who answer the phone.
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Eleanor Whitman
Founding Partner
Thirty years of commercial litigation. Tries the cases she pitches, and prepares for trial from the first meeting.
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Marcus Reyes
Partner · Corporate
Formation to exit. Marcus reads the deal the way the other side wishes their counsel had.
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Sara Tran
Partner · Real Estate
Closings, disputes, and development. Sara has never met a survey she would not read twice.
30+
Years in continuous practice
$240M
Recovered for clients
98%
Matters resolved favorably
3
States licensed to practice
Start the conversation
Bring us the matter.
A fixed-fee first meeting, a named lead, and a plan before you commit.